Good news: British conservatives to lobby GOP leaders on climate change

Senior Conservatives are to lobby Republicans in the US Senate to persuade them to back a climate emissions Bill. As the Tory leadership struggled to prevent party sceptics from dominating the environmental argument after the Copenhagen summit, David Cameron pledged to continue the work started in Denmark in trying to find a legally binding climate change agreement…

Greg Barker, the climate change spokesman, will visit America next month to meet Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator. John McCain, the former presidential candidate, has also invited him to speak.

Tory sources made clear that the Conservatives would have approached Copenhagen in broadly similar ways to Gordon Brown. “There isn’t a clear feeling that we would have done anything different,” said the source. They said that Mr Cameron was prepared to invest considerable personal energy in combating global climate change. “Cameron will come to the issue with a clear idea of what he wants to achieve and how.”