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Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged to work hard with other European leaders to extend the Emissions Trading Scheme beyond 2012, in the battle to fight climate change. Calling for a stronger European strategy in this area, Mr Blair said the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) needed to be more robust and he hoped there would be agreement on a range of new measures to increase energy efficiency.

His announcement comes in a letter to Stop Climate Chaos, an umbrella group of green lobby groups that Mr Blair is due to meet on Tuesday in Downing Street to discuss the growing threat of global warming due to an imbalance in the atmosphere of polluting greenhouse gases, mainly from industry and transport.

Mr Blair said: "I know others, including Chancellor Merkel, share this view and a determination not to fail.

"Across the world, too, we need to provide a clear, early signal to the private sector that there will be carbon markets after 2012.

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