London G20: Miliband confident on climate change progress
Ed Miliband is confident progress can be made at the G20 summit
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Thursday, 02, Apr 2009 08:31
The G20 summit will give "momentum" to efforts to reach a global deal on climate change, Ed Miliband has said.
Speaking from the ExCel conference centre in London's Docklands, the energy and climate change secretary said he expected the communiqué would not forget the need for action on the environment.
"What the G20 summit shows is there is an understanding among world leaders that the economic crisis and the environmental crisis can be tackled together," he said.
"The very fact this has been part of the discussion will give us what I think is the most important commodity - momentum."
Mr Miliband said he expected countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia, which have been hesitant to commit to low-carbon economies in the past, would attach importance to renewables.
"The notion of low-carbon as a way out of recession has gone from being marginal to being mainstream," he added.
"I think the world is changing very significantly."