Lib Dems top green ratings

8.17.00am BST (GMT +0100) Tue 27th May 2008

The Green Standard - www.thegreenstandard.org.uk

A report into the green policies of the major parties makes grim reading for David Cameron. Mr Cameron's Conservatives were judged to be the worst of the parties on the environment.

Mr Brown's Labour Party were shown to have missed their own targets on carbon emissions and renewables.

There was good news for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats. Mr Clegg's party were the clear green winners in the report.

The 'Green Standard' report was conducted by the UK's leading environmental groups including CPRE, Friends of the Earth and the RSPB.

It found that despite talking more about climate change, the Conservatives have "very few policy positions".

The Conservatives failed to win a single good rating on any of the report's criteria.

"This independent report shows that talking green and being green are two very different things," says Lib Dem campaigner Ben Prescott.

"Both Labour and the Conservatives talk about the environment, but are failing to deliver real action."

• Tackling climate change

On climate change, the report said that the Liberal Democrat plans were "uniquely consistent with the urgency of this challenge."

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg MP said, "We need bold action to tackle climate change."

"This means investing in trains, improving energy efficiency and switching from taxing people to taxing pollution instead."