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Energy and climate change are both sides of the same coin. If we’re to protect our environment, we need to move to cleaner and renewable forms of energy.

But with the Tories, it’s two sides of the same face!

On the same day David Cameron was vowing to review and cut green levies, Foreign Secretary William Hague was holding an event to praise them!

On Wednesday I spoke at a Foreign Office conference to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Labour’s 2008 Climate Change Act, created by our then Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.

It had all-party support and its legislative approach made Britain one of the world’s leading countries in tackling climate change.

The act introduced the power and legislative framework to impose green levies on energy companies to reduce our carbon output.

The estimated cost of green levies on an average fuel bill of £1,267 is approximately £112 or 9%. It is estimated that by 2020 it could rise to £124.

Most of these levies were introduced by the present coalition government with all party support, because it was the right thing to do.

In two weeks the world’s governments will meet in Warsaw to attend the UN conference on climate change.

The aim is to start fleshing out a new global deal to replace the Kyoto Treaty, to keep cutting carbon emissions.

But the all-party support we once had in the UK on tackling climate change is dead. Osborne is now anti-green and the Lib Dem Energy Secretary Ed Davey is too weak to stop him.

It is a coalition divided on its environmental policy and the promise to be the greenest ever government

So whilst the Foreign Office the Foreign Secretary was celebrating all party support for the Climate Change Act, Cameron was doing his very best to gut it at PMQs.

Cameron is the real climate change ‘con man.’ And he’s conning our children’s children out of a greener and more energy secure future.

* If we want to tackle climate change it’s going to rely on lots of small initiatives making a big difference.

An excellent example has been set by Forest Green Rovers Football Club in Gloucestershire.

It has recently been awarded the EU Gold Standard in environmental management for making sure Rovers are as green as their pitch!

It has converted its transportation to electric cars with car pools, cutting emissions by 61% and aiming for 83%.

It has built The New Lawn stadium which has solar panels and wind turbines. Even its organic pitch is cut with a solar-powered lawn mower.

So Rovers has cut its carbon emissions and saved money! The Club’s chair Dale Vince and his staff should go and speak to Osborne, Cameron and Davey.

If a football club can cuts costs and carbon, why can’t the Government?

* More from John Prescott here