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3/3/2013

 
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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the first leader who offers to go to the capital of Denmark to help close the climate deal.

Brown told Newsweek magazine that there isn’t any second opportunity to reverse any catastrophic damage to the environment if people don’t act now.

This year’s talks aim to develop a Kyoto Climate Protocol successor on global warming.

The Prime Minister warned that whether the UK opts for either low or high carbon energy sources, consumers would still have to spend more for energy in the future.

The annual climate negotiations are usually done by environment ministers; however, they do not have enough political muscle to make big decisions on spending.

Most climate scientists say that there must be no further delays in emissions cuts.

Brown also said that a deal is also important to help start a worldwide low-carbon economy as a way out of the current global economic crisis.

"What has now become clear is that the push toward decarbonisation will be one of the major drivers of global and national economic growth over the next decade", Brown said.

"And the economies which embrace the green revolution earliest will reap the greatest economic rewards", he said

Brown further added that costs will be more affordable when the economy


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