26 Jun 09 - Prime Minister's Road to Copenhagen speech - Department of Energy and Climate Change

26 Jun 09 - Prime Minister's Road to Copenhagen speech - Department of Energy and Climate Change: "26 Jun 09 - Prime Minister's Roadmap to Copenhagen speech
Roadmap to Copenhagen
The Prime Minister delivered a speech on the Roadmap to Copenhagen manifesto on the challenge of climate change and development in London on Friday 26th June 2009

There are very few moments in history when nations are summoned to common decisions that will reshape the lives of every man, woman and child on the planet for generations to come. When leaders have to consider not just what will deliver fairness in their generation, but fairness between the generations too.

* the creation of the Bretton Woods architecture of the post-war economy
* the Marshall Plan that rebuilt the post-war economy of Europe.

Each of these momentous decisions required different countries to assess not only their own distinctive goals but the needs and purposes of others; to recognise that in the long term we can advance our own concerns only by seeing and serving the concerns of others too; and so to reach agreement on a common way forward, across a broad front, to achieve far more than anything one country could have achieved on its own."