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Former British prime minister Tony Blair urges the world's top greenhouse gas emitters to launch a revolution to fight climate change and says he will work to sell a new global framework to slash carbon emissions. Former British prime minister Tony Blair urged revolutionary changes and further international cooperation to solve global warming at the G20 environment ministers meeting on Saturday (March 15) in Makuhari, Japan. At a summit in Japan of 20 polluting nations, the Japanese environment minister urged a 'peak out' of carbon dioxide emission in the next ten to twenty years. "We must work as one to peak CO2 emissions in the next ten to twenty year and reduce the amount by fifty percent by the year 2050 in order to stop the destruction that will be caused by global warming," said Japanese environment minister and host Ichiro Kamoshita. Blair called for a revolution against global warming. "If the average person in the U.S. is say, to emit per capita, one tenth of what they do today and those in the UK or Japan one fifth, we're not talking of adjustment, we're talking about the revolution," Blair told the gathering. Energy and environment ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States as well as emerging economies such as Brazil, China and India attended the conference. "We need the global deal to do it and here is the rub. The central dilemma is simple to describe. The developed nations have industrialised and, in...