Commenting on the new emissions target announced today by Ed Miliband, Greenpeace chief scientist Dr Doug Parr said:
"This is a hugely encouraging first move from the new Climate Change secretary. In a decade in power Labour has never adopted a target so ambitious, far-reaching and internationally significant as this. To meet it will require determined action from Gordon Brown and every one of his successors for the next four decades, hard choices will be made that will touch every Briton, but it can and must be done."
He continued:
"Ed Miliband obviously understands the urgency of the threat we face from climate change. He is absolutely right to say Britain should set an example to the rest of the world in tackling this issue, and we will support him wholeheartedly if the decisions he takes in the coming weeks and months genuinely reflect this ambition."
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