Gordon Brown: ‘The environment must be centre of policy worldwide’

By Gordon Brown

For too long too many governments thought their objectives began and ended with economic prosperity and jobs.

But I believe that the world needs a new paradigm that moves the environmental challenge to the centre of policy.

Over the next few days in America, starting at the UN, I will be setting out detailed and substantive ways that governments can meet the challenge of climate change.

..First, higher energy prices will and must now encourage the development of new cleaner sources of energy. So we are sponsoring new work on renewable sources of energy and will continue to provide more incentives for their introduction. And setting new standards for energy efficiency with new standards this month to make new buildings 40 per cent more efficient than in 1997.

The Independent