"Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge"

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Source: Brown vows to keep national control by Ian Black and Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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Gordon Brown is a British politician and former Prime Minister, known for his focus on economic reform and social justice.

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