Blair urges radical cuts in greenhouse gas emissions

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair last night urged fellow world leaders to agree radical cuts in harmful greenhouse gas emissions — going beyond even the existing Kyoto protocol which the United States still refuses to ratify.

Mr Blair told an invited audience of businessmen and government officials in the Mozambique capital Maputo that the Kyoto deal “is not radical enough”, and would mean at best a reduction of 1% in global emissions.

The prime minister said the potentially revolutionary role of science and technology in providing new forms of energy should be harnessed and promised to come forward with specific proposals at an unspecified later date.