28 November 2005 - Euro-MP Caroline Lucas is to play a key role in a new documentary film about climate change.

Dr Lucas, South-East England MEP and Green Party principal speaker, will criticise the government for its failure to ‘join up’ its thinking on climate change in the forthcoming documentary ‘Beyond Kyoto’.

“Climate change is the greatest threat we face, and our only hope for tackling it is for world leaders to adopt binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – with the richer countries cutting their emissions further and faster than developing nations,” she said.

“I am delighted to have played a part in the making of this film, which I hope will be seen by a wide audience and keep the pressure on Tony Blair to promote a replacement treaty for the Kyoto protocol based on tough, binding targets – applied universally under the ‘Contraction and Convergence’ principle.”

‘Beyond Kyoto: The politics and economic of global warming’ is a collaboration between Green Man Productions and the website www.big-picture.tv . It contains interviews with a wide range of environmentalists and academics, including Aubrey Meyer of the Global Commons Institute, Phil Thornhill of the Campaign against Climate Change, diplomat and academic Sir Crispin Tickell and the economist and author Richard Douthwaite.

A five-minute trailer for the documentary can be seen online at http://www.greenmanproductions.co.uk/film/climatechange/ .

Dr Lucas is a regular guest on BBC Radio Four’s ‘Today’ and BBC One’s ‘Question Time’ programmes.

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 To find out more about the film you can contact Green Man Productions via info@greenmanproductions.co.uk.