June 11, 2009 View all news Irish TimesHARRY McGEE, Political StaffTHE LABOUR spokeswoman on energy, Liz McManus, has been asked by the Oireachtas climate change committee to act as its rapporteur in examining proposals for legislation to set statutory limits and targets for emissions and carbon budgets.Climate change legislation is expected to be the key demand of the Green Party in the revised programme for government, which will be negotiated during the summer. ...At a meeting of the committee yesterday ... Oisín Coghlan of Friends of the Earth said ... there was an urgent need for a climate change Act and said a five-year carbon budget should be included in the legislation.Read the full story.See the latest on our climate change campaign Categorised in: Climate Change