Feature: More needs to be done on climate change: activists

British Trade and Cultural Office Director Michael Reilly said that climate change is simply an issue that industry cannot ignore any more.

"Because climate change will affect all of us. And it will affect our children even more. None of us can solve it on our own," Reilly said.

According to Reilly, the British government has taken practical steps to tackle the issue of greenhouse emissions.

The most significant measure was the introduction of the climate change levy, which was first announced in 1999 but formally introduced in 2001.