How Green Was My Valley (1941)
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John Ford66 YeaRS AFTER THIS MOVIE -- BRITAIN HAS BEEN TOTALLY DE-InDUSTRIALIZED
British government to publish climate change bill - Yahoo! News
LONDON (AFP) - The British government will publish a draft climate change bill on Tuesday, outlining long-term goals to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 60 percent by 2050 while eschewing annual targets.
The draft legislation comes amid heightened debate here over the role Britain should play in tackling global warming, with the three main political parties having proposed a raft of proposals on how best to push Britons to live greener lifestyles.
Though the government does not want to set annual targets, main opposition Conservative party leader David Cameron argues that independently set yearly goals will be more credible, effective and less liable to political manipulation.
Indeed, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday that the government will announce legally binding limits on carbon emissions that will be set every five years, accompanied by a duty for ministers to report to parliament every year on progress being made, seen as a move to combat criticism from Cameron.
According to the daily, if the government did not meet the bill's requirements in the first five-year interval, ministers would be required to take urgent action.
The environment has shot higher up the political agenda in Britain since Cameron's election as Tory leader in December 2005, along with the publication of a government-sponsored report last October which said the effects of global warming could cost the world more than World Wars I and II and the Great Depression of the 1930s combined.
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