The international consensus on the need for radical action to avoid serious climate change has been growing steadily since the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997. The British government has indicated its intention to achieve a CO2 reduction of 60 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050. Germany and France have signalled their intention to push climate change up the European agenda, and Sweden is on track to being an oil-free economy by 2020.
in favour of political centralisation