MEP: 'LABOUR CLIMATE POLICY IS ALL LIES AND SPIN'

LABOUR'S failure to meet its own targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions is an appalling breach of trust and further evidence of an incompetent government driven by lies and spin, Green Party Principal Speaker Caroline Lucas said today.

Dr Lucas, a Green Party Euro-MP and member of the European Parliament's Environment Committee, said:

"Today's admission that the government has failed to meet its own target of reducing UK CO2 emissions by 20 per cent by 2010 is an absolute scandal.

"The government knows what to do to reduce emissions - and yet it's doing exactly the opposite: in the last few weeks alone it's announced a freeze on fuel duty, it's decision to funding a £47 million dual carriageway in Sussex and a relaxation of its cap on industrial CO2 emissions under the EU
emissions trading scheme which comes into force next year.

"This isn't an accident - it's another example of this government.