London - The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Robin Cook, yesterday launched a new "green foreign policy" designed to push environmental protection higher up Britain's international agenda.
He unveiled a "global warming challenge fund" to provide training and consultancy advice for developing nations in how to reduce environmentally-damaging emissions.
He said the policy could be judged by whether the world met the tough targets set at the environmental summit in Kyoto, and by the extent to which Britain could push the issue up the agenda of international organisations. Mr Cook said he would not be using the phrase "green foreign policy", just as he had never actually used the expression "ethical foreign policy".