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Carbon "credit cards" could be issued as part of a nationwide carbon rationing scheme, Environment Secretary David Miliband has suggested.Carbon "credit cards" could be issued as part of a nationwide carbon rationing scheme, Environment Secretary David Miliband has suggested.
An annual allowance would be allocated, with the card being swiped on various items such as travel, energy or food.An annual allowance would be allocated, with the card being swiped on various items such as travel, energy or food.
Mr Miliband said people who used less than their allowance could sell any surplus to those who wanted more.Mr Miliband said people who used less than their allowance could sell any surplus to those who wanted more.
The Guardian says a feasibility study says big questions remain but quote Mr Miliband as urging "bold thinking".The Guardian says a feasibility study says big questions remain but quote Mr Miliband as urging "bold thinking".
Mr Miliband told the Guardian that the scheme had "a simplicity and beauty that would reward carbon thrift".Mr Miliband told the Guardian that the scheme had "a simplicity and beauty that would reward carbon thrift".
Mr Miliband, who commissioned the feasibility study, said the scheme could be working within five years.Mr Miliband, who commissioned the feasibility study, said the scheme could be working within five years.
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Ahead of the report's publication, Mr Miliband told the newspaper that he could not answer if climate change would get sorted, citing one problem as "the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better".Ahead of the report's publication, Mr Miliband told the newspaper that he could not answer if climate change would get sorted, citing one problem as "the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better".
He also said individuals and communities had to be empowered to tackle climate change - "the mass mobilising movement of our age".He also said individuals and communities had to be empowered to tackle climate change - "the mass mobilising movement of our age".
"You cannot just rely on the state," he said."You cannot just rely on the state," he said.
'Consistent radicalism''Consistent radicalism'
Mr Miliband predicted the environment would be a key issue in the next election, requiring Labour to "change our policies and our politics in fundamental ways so that we are seen as the change in the next election".Mr Miliband predicted the environment would be a key issue in the next election, requiring Labour to "change our policies and our politics in fundamental ways so that we are seen as the change in the next election".
href="/1/hi/sci/tech/4479226.stm" class="">Watts in your wallet? "I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together," he said. "I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together," he said.
He insisted that climate change required "cumulative, consistent radicalism" rather than "one shot wonders".He insisted that climate change required "cumulative, consistent radicalism" rather than "one shot wonders".
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Environmental measures in last week's pre-Budget report, including a 1.25p per litre increase in fuel duty and a doubling in air duty, were called "pretty feeble" by green groups.Environmental measures in last week's pre-Budget report, including a 1.25p per litre increase in fuel duty and a doubling in air duty, were called "pretty feeble" by green groups.
Mr Miliband also told the Guardian the bid to drive Tony Blair from Downing Street over his refusal to say when he would quit office had threatened the party's future. Environmental group Friends of the Earth said the principle of using a limited "budget" of carbon per person was sound, but the implementation - especially as it would involve a government IT project - was a cause for concern.
"If the September events had carried on for couple of weeks and left us with a party conference that looked like Labour's Wembley 1981 conference, it would have been curtains." Friends of the Earth climate change campaigner Martin Williams said: "What worries us is that it could take quite a long time to implement it and really we don't have that long to tackle climate change."
He added in 2007 the party needed to "get its idealism back". At a meeting in Downing Street on Monday, the prime minister met business, media and religious leaders to promote "collective action" against climate change.
"We need to recover that sense of insurgency we had in opposition," he said. The Bishop of London and the chief executives of B&Q, BSkyB, the Carphone Warehouse, HSBC UK, Man Investments, Marks & Spencer, O2, Starbucks UK, the director general of the BBC and Tesco formed a partnership to publicise "practical, simple solutions". A public campaign will be launched in March 2007.