Commenting on today's climate change speech by Gordon Brown, Greenpeace Chief Scientist Dr Doug Parr said:

"Brown is right when he says the scale of the money on the table for the developing world will make or break Copenhagen. By becoming the first major leader to put a figure on how much money is needed he has shown signs of leadership on climate change that have so far been sorely lacking. At last a G8 leader is talking about the right order of magnitude, three digit numbers and billions instead of millions. Without these kind of sums there won't be a deal in Copenhagen, and without a deal the world faces a grave future."

He added:

"The Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband appears to be winning some important battles in Whitehall, but now Gordon Brown needs to go to the G8 meeting next month and put serious money on the table to show his latest pronouncement isn't just empty rhetoric."

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