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A Browner shade of green: energy and the environment after Blair
9th July 2007 commentary
The handover from Blair to Brown has
been a long drawn-out process, and now
it has finally happened and a new Cabinet
and ministers have been appointed, the
policy questions return. How green is
Brown? How will the recent White Papers
on energy planning, and the draft Climate
Change Bill be taken forward? Will shorttermism—
and the next election strategy—
take precedence over the longer-term
challenges of climate change and
investment in power stations and
networks? What does the change in
ministers and the reshaping of the DTI
tell us?