Britain to push for global climate deal by 2008

The UK is to use the warnings of irreversible climate change and the biggest economic slump since the 1930s, outlined in yesterday's Stern review, to press for a new global deal to curb carbon emissions.

The Liberal Party in Canada has just elected their new leader, a former environmental minister and who running on a platform of three pillars; economic prosperity, social justice, and environmental sustainability. I have never seen a federal level election with such talk about the environment. There is hope...