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Europe's current focus on recovery from recession must not distract us from the question of what kind of economy we want to build. Unless we set our countries on a path to a sustainable low-carbon future, we will face continued uncertainty and significant costs from energy price volatility and a destabilising climate.\nThis is why we today set out our belief that the European Union should raise its emissions target. A reduction of 30 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020 would represent a real incentive for innovation and action in the international context. It would be a genuine attempt to restrict the rise in global temperatures to 2°C - the key climate danger threshold - stiffening the resolve of those already proposing ambitious action and encouraging those waiting in the wings. It would also make good business sense.

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The UK’s low carbon industries could deliver “more than a million jobs… by the middle of the next decade”, according to business secretary Peter Mandelson who today trailed a package of new measures designed to support the emerging sector.

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