Caroline Flint MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, commenting on the IPCC report on climate change, said:

“This report provides overwhelming and compelling scientific evidence that climate change is happening, is caused by human activity and will have a devastating impact if urgent action is not taken to reduce our carbon emissions and invest in mitigation. It highlights the need for a global, legally binding treaty to cut carbon emissions at the Paris Conference in 2015.

"But to have influence abroad we must show leadership at home. That’s why the next Labour Government will set a decarbonisation target for the power sector for 2030, unshackle the Green Investment Bank and reverse the decline in investment in clean energy we have seen under David Cameron.”

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