David Cameron is the front-runner of the Conservatives in the race to succeed Tony Blair. Cameron knows that his party needs to perform well after years in the opposition, and above all, they need a hot topic. Cameron has found that topic – climate protection. For instance Cameron likes to talk in pre-election campaigns in London about the “green economy for a green future”.

David Cameron on an adventure-, ecologist expedition in Norway.“Climate change is our burden of debt to future generations,” he states on such occasions. He speaks of the approximate 15,000 species that are in danger of extinction due to climate change. Threatened with extinction because of “the ruthless human exploitation of resources in our common home or fraternity.” Journalists in the United Kingdom are picking up the term “fraternity” and commenting on it. It is a term that normally does not appear in the vocabulary of traditional conservative politicians.As in Germany, where for a long time the conservative Christian Democrats had considered environmental policies to be poison to the economy, so the conservatives in England are now advancing in the direction of sustainable ecological and economic policies. Since the chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern calculated for Blair’s government how much climate change would cost the economy, if it does not undertake any solutions, both political camps in that country – socialists and conservatives - have announced their political shift at least verbally. Competition livens up business, and therefore both political parties have climbed into the ring and are disputing with one another about the severity of environmental and sustainable policies. The Brits, however, who experienced no “green movement” in the 80’s as the Germans did, are approaching this new complex of topics little by little. Objective observers in that land have already spotted a winner in the political trend toward ecology – Nature itself. They cannot assess, however, whether the topic of climate protection and sustainability will help the conservative candidate David Cameron to an election victory.