Action should be taken immediately to begin the phaseout of all fossil fuels and bring in clean, sane energy alternatives.

In Britain

The Government should halt development of the Atlantic Frontier oilfields.

It should start the shift to a genuinely sane energy path. A programme for a minimum of 50,000 homes powered by solar electric by 2010 could be started by redirecting fossil fuel subsidies to solar power.

Globally

Greenpeace supports the Alliance of Small and Low Lying Island States in its call for industrial nations to cut CO2 emissions by 20% on 1990 levels by 2005. Any less would require more drastic action later on to stay within safe ecological limits of climate change.

A political commitment to begin a fossil fuel phase-out should be made by world leaders at the UN General Assembly Special Session on the Environment in June and the Climate Convention in Kyoto in December.