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Published: 6 September 2007

Training to be green

• MY apologies to John Gulliver (New Journal, August 30) for not meeting him at the St Pancras launch of the Liberal Democrat national policy to transform Britain into a country which absorbs as much carbon as it emits by 2050.
I would have been there but I was on holiday, visiting Portugal by train, putting Lib Dem principles into practice.
London-Paris-Lisbon-Faro-Seville-Madrid-Paris-London. A magical ride through some phenomenal scenery on some fantastic railways that put our own to shame. One of the key planks of the new Lib Dem policy is more investment in trains to be paid for by carbon charges on road freight and flights. Another is for incentives to be given to individuals, businesses and institutions to supply electricity they have generated themselves to the National Grid.
This has been a phenomenal success elsewhere in Europe so it’s hard to see why Gordon Brown is so set against it. Now that the national Liberal Democrat party has provided a radical, practical, and coherent blueprint to help the UK play its part in the battle against climate change I hope and believe that our local Lib Dem-led council will follow suit and put even more effort into creating a low carbon Camden.
An excellent and crucial next step would be to make combating climate change a core strategy of the forthcoming Local Development Framework, options for which are due to go out for consultation this autumn.
CLLR ALEXIS ROWELL
chair, Camden Sustainability Task Force

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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