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'No excuse' for island not to act on climate

A LOCAL climate change expert has said 'Guernsey can have no excuses for inaction', after the governments of all 195 member states of the United Nations gave their backing to a new climate change agreement in Paris on Saturday.

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The overall aim agreed at the conference was to limit the average global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius.

Professor Nick Day of La Societe Guernesiaise's Climate Change Group urged Guernsey to adopt similar measures.

'It would be shameful in the extreme if Guernsey were not to join the rest of the world's jurisdictions in committing itself to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions commensurate with its status as a wealthy, independent jurisdiction, together with a plan of action on how these targets will be achieved,' he said.

''It should adopt forthwith the same targets as the UK, as set out in the 2008 UK Climate Change Act. Guernsey can have no excuses for inaction.'

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