Greenpeace has withdrawn its support for the government’s policy on climate change, describing its record on greenhouse gas reduction in the UK as “pathetic”.

Greenpeace executive director Stephen Tindale says the organisation has been convinced that Tony Blair cannot be trusted on this issue following two recent failures.

He comments: “First, the government increased the amount of carbon that industry will be allowed to emit under the new European Emissions Trading scheme which starts next year…this will allow industry to emit as much carbon in the future as it has in the past.”

The second failure, adds Tindale, was the recent climb down over the housing bill, which would have increased energy efficiency of the housing stock and efficiency standards of social housing, but which the government said would be too expensive. Tindale also claims chp plants have been “starved of support and sacrificed to the objective of liberalising the energy market” which has forced the chp sector into decline.

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