We must pay now to avoid climate disaster, says Blair

James Sturcke and agencies
Monday October 30, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

Tony Blair today said that the world was facing "nothing more serious, more urgent, or more demanding of leadership" than climate change and that Britons must be prepared to pay now to avoid future disaster.

Speaking at the launch of Sir Nicholas Stern's review on tackling global warming, the prime minister said there was "overwhelming scientific evidence" that climate change was taking place and that the consequences of failing to act would be "disastrous".