RISING TO THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE!

This week saw David Kidney on the highest building in the Liverpool docks, together with Jade White, Eco Warrier who reports on Environmental issues for the Liverpool Echo.

David Kidney was in Liverpool to announce the Marine Renewables Proving Fund at the Annual Wave and Tidal Technology Symposium. £22 million has been made available for businesses to develop marine based renewable energy ideas, to demonstrate they are viable. 

David Kidney says:
 “2009 is a critical year for the global effort to tackle climate change. Many people are already feeling the effects of climate change. We have to find the ways to adapt, and to avoid further damaging changes. This is essential for global security and prosperity.

“We are working towards the United Nations meeting in Copenhagen in December. This offers a make or break chance to build the next international agreement for reducing climate change.

“To deliver our part of the deal we need, we will have to transform our country into a cleaner, greener place to live. We have the creativity to be at the forefront of global renewable energy developments.

“Because we are surrounded by the sea, wave and tidal energy offer a huge resource that we need to develop. We need to make the investment in new technologies to help us take advantage of these resources. The proving fund is to help technology developers with well developed ideas to develop prototypes to test the technology.

“The challenge of climate change is enormous, but so are the opportunities. In the work that I am doing for the Department of Energy and Climate Change I am meeting more and more people and businesses who are rising to the challenge.”

Full text of the The speech to the symposium can be found here: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/speech_watts/speech_watts.aspx