Prime Minister Tony Blair this month called for greater international action on climate change and said specific targets for emissions cuts are a necessity for achieving climate goals. Speaking at a Parliamentary Liaison Committee hearing, Blair suggested that an environmental "tipping point" — a point beyond which no human action could reverse climate change — may be reached in the next few years. "If we don't get the right agreement internationally for the period after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 then we are in serious trouble... but there are signs of an international consensus developing," he told the committee in a twice-yearly hearing.
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