Stern refuses to be drawn on green taxes

17/01/2007

The author of the government's report on climate change today refused to endorse the limited green taxes outlined by Gordon Brown in last month's pre-budget report. When asked by a committee of MPs whether he was disappointed by the measures Sir Nicholas Stern said: I'm a civil servant - it's not for me to pronounce disappointment or enthusiasm with government policy. The limited green taxes on flights and motorists' fuel were widely criticised by environmental campaigners as being too weak a response to the Stern report.