(11 Apr 1997) English/Nat
Britain's Green Party launched its election manifesto for the second time on Friday, complaining that it had not been taken seriously by the media for the first time round.
But environmental pressure groups are continuing to have a high-profile in the country.
A group of environmental activists have set up camp around Manchester Airport to protest the building of a second runway -- and are building a network of tunnels underneath the proposed site.
SOUNDBITE:
I think quite a few people are aware but they're not aware they can do something about it. A lot of people say I'm only one person what can I do. I've only got one small voice but when one voice links up with another and links up another voice and another and another and so on it gets louder and you can reach more people because you're travelling further.
SUPER CAPTION: Kevin
SOUNDBITE:
Well Britain is known as the dirty old grey man of Europe because our record is so appalling and in every international negotiation it seems that Britain is slowing down agreement on environmental treaties and I think the main reason for this is that we don't have green MPs in Britain and therefore there is no pressure on other parties to bring forward a strongly ecological perspective into international negotiations.
SUPER CAPTION: David Taylor, principal speaker for the Green Party
SOUNDBITE:
A side effect of that has been that they have actually increased the emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is a green house gas it causes global warming and this means that we're unlikely to meet our targets set at the Rio Summit in 1992 for limiting and reducing the emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
SUPER CAPTION: Dr Ian Williams, senior lecturer at the University of Middlesex
SOUNDBITE:
The point that the environment is not a separate issue, it's a key part, for example, of economic policy, it's a key part of any country's foreign policy.
SUPER CAPTION: Peter Melchett, executive director of Greenpeace
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