Here's my response: My apologies to "John Gulliver" for not meeting him at the St Pancras launch of the Liberal Democrat national policy to transform Britain into a carbon neutral country which absorbs as much carbon as it emits by 2050. I would have been there but I was on holiday - visiting Portugal by train - putting Lib Dem principles into practice.
London-Paris-Lisbon-Faro-Seville-Madrid-Paris-London. A magical ride through some phenomenal scenery on some fantastic railways that put our own to shame (see photo of Madrid's magnificently upgraded Atocha station).
One of the key planks of the new Lib Dem policy is more investment in trains to be paid for by carbon charges on road freight and flights. Another is for incentives to be given to individuals, businesses and institutions to. supply electricity they have generated themselves to the National Grid. This has been a phenomenal success elsewhere in Europe so it's hard to see why Gordon Brown is so set against it.
Now that the national Liberal Democrat party has provided a radical, practical and coherent blueprint to help the UK play its part in the battle against climate change I hope and believe that our local Lib Dem-led council will follow suit and put even more effort into creating a low 
carbon Camden.
carbon Camden. I note that at the St Pancras launch the Lib Dem environment spokesman Chris Huhne (right) commended Camden's new administration for making a good start in terms of environmentally friendly policies. An excellent and crucial next step would be to make combatting climate change a core strategy of our new planning rules - the forthcoming Local Development Framework - options for which are due to go out for consultation this autumn.
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