The Green
Budget:
Counting the carbon as well as the cash.
Green Party Principal Speaker Dr. Derek Wall today
unveils a budget that takes climate change seriously,
presenting the first ever budget of it's kind - a Carbon
Costed budget.
Dr. Wall said "This is a budget for the planet,
for real prosperity, for justice and above all, a budget
to deal with climate change."
"The Green Party believes we need to reduce the
UK's emissions by around 90 per cent by 2050, to have
a fighting change of staving off devastating climate
change.
"This means annual reductions in the region of
6 - 9 per cent. "Our Carbon Costed budget does
just that, presenting a package of measures that will
save the UK 7.5 per cent of carbon dioxide emissons
in 2007/2008.
"We are the only party prepared to accept that
ecological factors mean that infinite growth is impossible
on a finite planet, and to come up with practical policy
measures to deal with that reality."We are also
the only party to recognise the truly radical cuts
required to our emissions."
The Party's budget makes various proposals, estimates
the budget effect in 2007/2008 and also estimates the
net carbon dioxide emissions reductions that would
follow.
