{"id":5794,"date":"2015-02-17T06:33:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2015-02-17T06:33:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:33:24","slug":"cameron-agrees-rare-deal-on-climate-change-with-opposition-ahead-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5794","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Agrees &#8216;Rare Deal&#8217; on Climate Change with Opposition Ahead of Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.uk\/2015\/02\/17\/government-agrees-rare-deal-climate-change-opposition-ahead-election\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Agrees &#8216;Rare Deal&#8217; on Climate Change with Opposition Ahead of Election<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Environmental leaders have welcomed a rare cross-party deal to tackle climate change struck between Britain\u2019s leading political parties ahead of the general\u00a0election.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and opposition leader Ed Miliband of the Labour Party have jointly agreed to end the\u00a0use of &#8216;unabated&#8217;\u00a0coal for power generation unless it uses new clean-up technology \u2013 and achieve a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edie.net\/news\/6\/Party-leaders-put-planet-above-politics-with-new-climate-agreement\/\">\u201cfair, strong, legally binding\u201d<\/a>\u00a0global climate\u00a0deal.<\/p>\n<p>John Sauven, Greenpeace\u00a0UK\u00a0executive director, said: \u201cThis pledge marks a turning point in the collective effort to take Britain\u2019s energy system out of the Victorian age and into the 21st\u00a0century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time all of the\u00a0UK\u2019s main political parties have committed to ending carbon pollution from coal plants, giving this country a better chance of tackling climate\u00a0change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unusual\u00a0Deal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/feb\/14\/cameron-clegg-and-miliband-sign-joint-climate-pledge\">\u201chighly unusual\u201d deal<\/a>\u00a0was brokered by environmental think tank Green Alliance and supported by\u00a0NGOs including\u00a0WWF, Christian Aid and Greenpeace. It also sees the three parties promising to work together to transition to a \u201ccompetitive, energy efficient low carbon economy\u201d as well as set carbon budgets in line with the 2008 Climate Change\u00a0Act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Agrees &#8216;Rare Deal&#8217; on Climate Change with Opposition Ahead of Election Environmental leaders have welcomed a rare cross-party deal to tackle climate change struck between Britain\u2019s leading political parties ahead of the general\u00a0election. Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and opposition leader Ed Miliband of the Labour Party have jointly agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3612,141,3613,1195,387,3611,3614,820,897],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-christian-aid","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-act","tag-david-cameron","tag-greenpeace","tag-ngos","tag-nick-clegg","tag-uk","tag-wwf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5795,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions\/5795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}