Renewable Energy Deployment

EDM number 1825 in 2002-03, proposed by Desmond Turner on 28/10/2003.

That this House endorses the aspirations of the Energy White Paper for the deployment of renewable electricity generation of 10 per cent. by 2010 and 20 per cent. by 2020 as a major contribution towards the target of a 60 per cent. reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, but notes that there is little confidence that these aims will be achieved without new policy initiatives; and accordingly calls on the Government to bring forward in the forthcoming Queen's Speech an energy bill which in its provisions should take full account of the proposal for a carbon tax from the Royal Society, the recommendations of the Science and Technology Committee for a Renewable Energy Act, including a carbon tax, and the renewable energy report and recommendations from the all-party parliamentary group, PRASEG.

This motion has been signed by a total of 88 MPs.