Blair goes Green

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Tony Blair has released a report with The Climate Group showing the benefits of collective action in reaching emissions reduction targets. In the video below, he also says that an ambitious deal at Copenhagen like the one Ed Miliband wrote about recently would be good for economic growth and employment, with up to 10 million new jobs created.

Meanwhile, Gordon Brown has said he is willing to attend the Copenhagen summit and is calling on world leaders to join him and climate change ministers at the event in December.

The new report finds that, under a global deal involving all countries, ambitious efforts to cut emissions can:

* Create as many as 10 million new jobs around the world by 2020.

* Generate additional economic growth worth as much as the green stimulus packages recently adopted by major governments.

* Enable a 15-fold reduction in carbon price from 65 dollars per tonne of CO2 to 4 dollars per tonne of CO2.