the green shift: environmental policies to match a changing public climate The Smith Institute The Smith Institute is an independent think tank that has been set up to look at issues which flow from the changing relationship between social values and economic imperatives. If you would like to know more about the Smith Institute please write to: the green shift the green Edited by Peter Bill The Director The Smith Institute 3rd Floor 52 Grosvenor Gardens London SW1W 0AW Telephone +44 (0)20 7823 4240 Fax +44 (0)20 7823 4823 Email
[email protected] Website www.smith-institute.org.uk Designed and produced by Owen & Owen 2006 Green_Shift_Text_V1.qxd 17/11/06 10:42 am Page 1 THE SMITH INSTITUTE the green shift: environmental policies to match a changing public climate Edited by Peter Bill Published by the Smith Institute ISBN 1 905370 13 X © The Smith Institute 2006 Green_Shift_Text_V1.qxd 17/11/06 10:42 am Page 2 THE SMITH INSTITUTE Contents Preface By Wilf Stevenson, Director, Smith Institute 3 Introduction Peter Bill, Editor of Estates Gazette 4 Chapter 1. Protecting and improving our environment Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer 8 Chapter 2. Forging an environmental contract Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs 18 Chapter 3. Preventing a catastrophe Professor Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government 24 Chapter 4. Setting credible targets Dr Dieter Helm, Fellow of New College, University of Oxford, and Member of the 30 Ministerial Task Force on Sustainable Development Chapter 5.