100 world cities in climate rescue drive

Britain has launched a campaign to tackle the global climate change crisis through the sharing of information between 100 cities in 60 countries from Argentina to Vietnam. The network includes cities of the world’s biggest polluter the United States, which has rejected the Kyoto climate change treaty, as well as China which is not bound by the treaty and Russia which as signed up but dislikes it.

The ZeroCarbonCity campaign, co-ordinated by the British Council, is based on cities being the biggest consumers of electricity and therefore the main generators of greenhouse gases that are warming the world towards what many see as looming Armageddon. John Fitzgerald has the details from London.