Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has said that countries must work together to get a deal on climate change at December's UN summit in Copenhagen.

Speaking at the Major Economies Forum, Gordon Brown called on world leaders to attend the summit - stating that there was "no Plan B" and that "business as usual" would not be enough.

With Labour, the UK is already among the world leaders in developing low carbon energy, supporting energy efficiency and working to secure international agreement on tackling climate change. Labour's Climate Change Act made Britain the first country in the world to put ambitious long term emissions targets into law.


Mr Brown said: "In every era there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history - because they change the course of history. Copenhagen must be such a time. There are now fewer than fifty days to set the course of the next fifty years and more. So, as we convene here, we carry great responsibilities, and the world is watching.

"If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement, in some future period, can undo that choice. By then it will be irretrievably too late."

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