Great Britain presented an ambitious bill fixing limitation to the greenhouse gas emissions, within the framework of its efforts in the long term to find a framework international called to succeed the protocol of Kyoto, which falls due in 2012.

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In its bill on the climatic change, the government estimates that the carbon dioxide emissions must decrease by 60% from here at 2050 and envisages the creation of an independent Audit Board to study each year the progress carried out in the optics of this objective.

British the Prime Minister Tony Blair had placed the questions of climatic change at the head of the international priorities when it directed the Group of the Eight (G8), in 2005, and Great Britain could from now on become the first country to be fixed by legislative way of the constraining limits as regards gas emissions for purpose of greenhouse.

“The bill on the climatic change, the first of this kind to being elaborate in a country, shows our will to remain the leaders on the matter”, declared the British Minister for the Environment, David Miliband.

From here at 2020, the bill lays down an objective forcing of reduction from 26% to carbon dioxide 32%.

“It is necessary to congratulate Miliband to have published this bill and it at a rate of in being proud - the government and are to him an example for the remainder of G8”, estimated Andrew Pendleton, specialist in the climatic questions in ONG Christian Aid.

The bill will be submitted to public discussion and to the members of Parliament before being voted by the deputies, the next year, but the militants ecologists would wish that the objective be changed to 80% of reduction from here at 2050 and that an annual objective of 3% of reduction is laid down to guarantee the application of the plan.

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“If the law, in its final version, is not reinforced, the process will represent a missed special occasions. It is the first stage of a long process”, said Pendleton.

The government rejects the fixing of annual targets, considering them too rigid.

Great Britain and Germany are with the point of the combat so that an agreement succeeds the protocol of Kyoto and includes economies in full “boom” like China and India, as well as the United States which rejected the protocol in 2001.

“The way followed by Great Britain is the maid. It is important to create the legal and economic conditions necessary to the environmental protection”, was delighted the German chancelière Angela Merkel, whose remarks are quoted by Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Stavros Dimas, police chief European with the Environment, greets in the same columns “a courageous initiative” and a signal to the attention of the other members of the EU.

London insists on the need for modifying the individual behaviors and estimates that the population should be encouraged to reduce her consumption of energy.

The Gordon Brown, Minister for Finance, declared Monday that Great Britain was going gradually to cease using the too greedy bulbs, to help the private individuals with better insulating their dwellings and trying to convince the European Union to prohibit certain electricals appliance which waste energy.

In same time, the government hesitates to increase the fuel taxes, the vehicles most polluting and the air voyages - measurements which are avèreraient unpopular in a country which adores the not very expensive car and holidays.

Tony Blair must leave her functions in the months to come and Brown should according to any probability succeed to him, but their formation, the Ploughing, is far with the drag in the surveys behind the preserving Party. The two parties endeavour each one to seem more ecologist that the other, and the environment should one of the broad topics of next legislative, be envisaged in 2009.