Christian Aid has welcomed the inclusion of the Climate Change Bill in the Queen's Speech, emphasising that the main rationale should be that the halt of global warming will save millions of lives in developing countries.

The government announced its Climate Change Bill in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday. The Bill will include a pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent by 2050 and set up the Carbon Committee, an independent body to work with the government to reduce emissions.

"It's great to have the government focussing on climate change but the catastrophe of greenhouse gas emissions is not just about whether the UK has enough fossil fuel. It's about the lives and livelihoods of millions of vulnerable people in developing countries," said Christian Aid's senior climate analyst Andrew Pendleton speaking from the UN Climate Conference in Nairobi.

'"If the bill is only underpinned by a desire to hoard fuel stocks then we fear that it will lack the teeth it needs to bring down urgently the dangerous greenhouse gas emissions that impact so savagely on poor peoples' lives," he said.