Blair and Climate Change - the Rhetoric-Reality Gap

Publication date: February 2005

Summary
Uk Prime Minister Tony Blair has publicly stated that tackling climate change and African poverty are to be his two top priorities during the UK's presidencies of the G8 and the EU. Blair has repeatedly spoken of his climate change commitments while failing to reduce the UK's climate changing CO2 emissions since coming to power in 1997. In the run up to the G8 in July, Blair needs to match his rhetoric with action.