Climate Bill Announced!

Weeks of rumblings have finally turned into political action with a Climate Bill! That's what campaigning over the last year and a half has turned into - maybe politicians do listen after all =)

Here is the story from the BBC for the two-minute version, but includes the important warning from opposition politicians that we want a Climate Bill that does stuff, and that isn't watered down through the legislative process. We want a meaningful, broad and deep Climate Bill that sets out the framework for effective public policy choices, stimulates the market and incentivizes changing behaviour for individuals!

The DEFRA press release can be found here, and a longer statement made by Miliband to the Commons on Monday. Friends of the Earth, with whom this campaign began as The Big Ask, has their response here.

There is a mountain of material on the BBC website available now with the release of the Stern Report - the review of the economics of climate change - that I haven't had the chance to look through yet, but hope to do so soon. The main story is here, while the Guardian leader article from Tuesday's edition is here (much more comment at commentisfree)