Earlier this week, President Obama revealed new climate change plans to cut US carbon emissions by 30% by 2030.
Over in the UK, David Cameron recently declared the 2015 Conservative government as the "greenest" ever - whilst simultaneously slashing solar power subsidies, cancelling plans to build onshore wind farms and canning requirements for new homes to be zero carbon.
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After Ed Miliband said the urgency to address the climate change problem had gone out the window, perhaps it's time we stepped up our game?