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| Brown faces climate change revolt | Brown faces climate change revolt |
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| Gordon Brown is facing the prospect of another significant backbench rebellion - this time over climate change. | Gordon Brown is facing the prospect of another significant backbench rebellion - this time over climate change. |
| More than 80 Labour MPs have signed an amendment to the Climate Change Bill, which would force ministers to promise greater cuts in carbon emissions. | More than 80 Labour MPs have signed an amendment to the Climate Change Bill, which would force ministers to promise greater cuts in carbon emissions. |
| The Climate Change Bill commits the government to make at least a 60% cut in CO2 emissions by 2050. The MPs want that figure to rise to 80%. | The Climate Change Bill commits the government to make at least a 60% cut in CO2 emissions by 2050. The MPs want that figure to rise to 80%. |
| The rebels say the 60% goal will not do enough to control global warming. | |
| They also claim it is based on out-of-date science. | |
| The government is not unsympathetic to the 80% target and the prime minister has already said the evidence points that way. | |
| However, he has handed the issue to an independent Climate Change Committee, headed by former CBI chief, Lord Turner, and he is refusing to change the bill until the committee has agreed a new target. | |
| Lord Turner is not due to report until 1 December - after the Climate Change Bill is likely to have passed into law, probably in November. | |
| The rebel MPs want the government to pre-empt Lord Turner's committee and put the 80% target in the bill now, or persuade the peer to report earlier so that his goal can be put into the measure. |