Radical series of proposals to tackle climate changes including a ban on the petrol powered cars by 2040 has struck the Liberal Democrats’ Zero Carbon Britain plans as environmentalists firmly believe tackling global warming would need an enormous economic change.
At the party’s annual conference in Brighton, environment spokesman Chris Huhne revealed plans to make Britain Carbon neutral by 2050 as a result of the Lib Dems initiative to regain the plans after high profile Tory and Labour green announcements.
A number of the other key proposals in the Liberal Democrats’ Zero Carbon Britain plans include the introduction of the green mortgages to encourage more environmentally friendly homes. Charging lorries to use the UK’s roads in order to double rail investment, possibly creating a high speed line running north to south has also been considered.
Some other preparations to boost spending on flood defenses to respond to climate change have been highlighted. Encouraging microgeneration by paying a higher rate to producers who export energy to the National Grid and creating a climate change levy of £10 on domestic flights could restructure the economy towards a basis that is based on renewable energy not on fossil fuels.
Putting his green vision, Mr. Huhne warned that there’s little time left to change the way people live. He cited:
It’s an enormous economic change but it’s an economic change in line with changes which we’ve seen in the past, for example between the end of the 19th Century and beginning of the 20th Century moving from steam power to the petrol engine, moving from gas light to electric light.
