Hutton warns West over environment

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Business Secretary John Hutton will tell business leaders in Hong Kong that it was important to work constructively with the governments of China, India and South Korea.

On the eve of a meeting of G8 energy ministers in Japan, Mr Hutton will say: "How we secure cheap, reliable, clean energy will be centre stage of this G8 meeting and, as the world tries to negotiate a post-Kyoto deal on climate change, we must strongly resist the temptation to demonise the new Asia economies.

"Those who think the answer to dealing with the challenges of climate change is to tell the people of China or India to sacrifice the sort of living standards that we have enjoyed for so long are deeply misguided.

"It is the right of every person and every nation to strive for a better way of life.

"Climate change is a global problem and there can be no gain in alienating the world's developing economies as we fight to tackle it.

"We must work together to have a real impact and develop the low carbon technologies of the future that will bring benefits to all our economies and to the planet.

"We in the West must shoulder the burden of tackling climate change in equal measure to the benefit we derived from the industrial revolution over the past 150 years.

"That is why at this week's G8 the UK will encourage all members to invest in and develop cleaner forms of energy production."

Mr Hutton, who is on the second leg of a trade trip to Vietnam and China, said he had been impressed by the action already being taken to reduce the impact of pollution in the region's cities, adding: "We do not need to lecture on the importance of protecting the environment."