Britain to use climate change report to push for global deal - Yahoo! News: "LONDON (AFP) - Britain will use a major report on climate change to push for a global deal to slash carbon emissions within two years and for major reform of international institutions to oversee the report's recommendations, it was reported here.


The government has already pledged to pass a bill that will put into law its goal of reducing carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2050, and has also said it is considering the possibility of implementing so-called green taxes to encourage people to be more energy-efficient.
But government ministers, along with the author of the report, were united in their belief that international agreement was necessary for any change to occur.
'It has to be international action,' said Nicholas Stern, the former World Bank chief economist who authored the 600-page report that analysed the economic consequences of global warming.
'Countries have to get together and work out what they're going to do together,' he told the BBC on Monday.
The broadcaster said that Prime Minister Tony Blair will start the campaign for a new international agreement on Friday, in a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Blair said on Monday that negotiations started at last year's G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, were now 'key' to securing action after the Kyoto agreement, which aimed to reduce greenhouse gases, expires in 2012.
Germany takes over both the G8 and European Union presidencies next year, and Britain will lobby for climate change to be at the top of both agendas. A spokeswoman for Blair's Downing Street office, speaking to AFP, was unable to confirm the meeting.
Citing unnamed sources in Blair's office, meanwhile, The "