A People's Manifesto for CO2 Emissions Reduction
    The undersigned urge the government to adopt the following policies
  1. New fossil-fuel power stations to be banned by 2010 unless they have negligible1
    Negligible should mean less than 10% of the CO2 produced by current equivalent systems.
    CO2 emissions. Existing stations to be retro-fitted with sequestration systems by 2015, unless they are due to close by 2020.
  2. No new road vehicles to be licensed after 2010 (private) and 2015 (commercial) unless they have negligible CO2 emissions. No old road vehicles to be licensed after 2015 (private) and 2020 (commercial) unless they have negligible CO2 emissions.
  3. A policy to move towards smaller, localised schools, hospitals and industries, exchanging economies of scale for the reduction in energy costs2
    If a hospital is down the road, people are more likely to walk to it than drive, and even when vehicles become low-emission, walking will still involve lower emissions.
    of the journeys that large central organisations require.
  4. Home Improvement grants to be provided (funded by the carbon tax below) for the installation of all forms of renewable energy capture/generation in domestic properties and commercial or civic buildings. Building regulations to be changed so that all new buildings must be significantly more energy efficient and derive at least 50% of their energy needs from on-site energy capture/generation.
  5. Carbon tax to be introduced at a very low level - 20p per tonne carbon in 2010 - with a built in geometric escalation. The level should increase by 50% per year for 20 years so that by 2030 it will be £436.06/tonne. The predictability of this escalation will give planners time and reason to adapt to the economic regime.

Please send this manifesto to everyone you know, and ask them to visit this website - www.co2emissions.org.uk - to register their support, find out more, or participate in the discussion. I must stress again that the manifesto is NOT cast in stone, and any discussions on the site will be aimed at both getting governments to implement suitable policies, and achieving consensus on what policies they should be implementing.

Thank you for your interest.
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by Simon Oliver

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