Top LibDem on Contraction and Convergence at Green Alliance

Vince Cable of the Lib Dems, declared on C&C at the recent Green Alliance meeting as follows: -

"Sustainable development was an ideological compromise – a plea for growth which respects the environment. The underlying tension remains and is reflected in the way different views of the EU on the one hand and China and India on the other at Copenhagen.

‘Contraction and Convergence’ - the compromise formula for climate change - is designed to resolve that tension but agreement is a long way off. And both sides are right. The continued growth of greenhouse gas
emissions threatens serious consequences for the next generation. But the rapid growth achieved in China, especially, and India in the last three decades has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and there is an enormous, understandable, appetite to continue."



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