Ed Miliband pushes for zero carbon emissions target following COP21

Former Labour leader will lead cross-party campaign on issue in 2016 for Britain to put its own commitment on statute books

Ed Miliband has vowed to use the landmark international agreement on climate change to push the British government into being the first in the world to put a zero carbon emissions target into law.

The former Labour leader said a global agreement on achieving zero emissions by the end of the century would make it logical for Britain to put its own commitment on the statute books.