Nobel-Winning Climate Panel Calls for Urgent Action

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After IPCC releases report, Britain's new Prime Minister unveils an ambitious climate change plan.

Just days after the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) <a target="_blank" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16400384&ft=1&f=1003" title="Nobel-Winning Climate Panel Calls for Urgent Action">releases their final report</a>, Britain's Prime Minister announced that he plans to raise the country's already ambitious climate change targets.In his first environmental speech since taking office, Prime Minister Gordon Brown discussed cutting carbon emissions and expressed his desire for Britain to lead the way in tackling global climate change.Britain has already committed to cutting carbon emissions by 60 percent of 1990 levels by 2050, though lawmakers have warned that the country will likely miss a steppingstone target of a 20 percent reduction by 2010.Brown, who took office in June, said he will ask a committee of advisers to consider whether Britain can meet a 80 percent cut in emissions by 2050.By Cassandra Darwin <a href="mailto:cdarwin@enviance.com">cdarwin@enviance.com</a> 9 application/xml false Britain climate change IPCC Nobel-Winning Climate Panel Calls for Urgent Action The final report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released Saturday at the end of the group's conference in Valencia, Spain. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16400384&ft=1&f=1003 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 $Admin 75.72.119.200 false true false false true 205814 false false true false false false true 107524 blog blogsite/Enviance/web