9 December 2020
The Committee on Climate Change has today published its Sixth Carbon Budget for the years 2033 to 2037. [1]
In response to the report, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said:
"The science is indisputable and we know what the Government needs to do but so far we've not seen the ambitious, consistent leadership the CCC emphasises is necessary to make sure positive, feasible and affordable changes happen.
"Instead we have a Prime Minister who talks the talk but is barely on his feet, let alone walking or running towards the better future we know is possible. And the Chancellor doesn't even seem to have read the climate crisis memo. So we get a piecemeal 10-point climate action plan from the Prime Minister one week, which is followed up by climate inaction in the Spending Review a week later. The Treasury needs to be shaken out of its climate torpor because it is holding back the essential transition to a low-carbon future.
"The climate emergency has to be made the top priority across the whole of government. We must take full responsibility for our overseas emissions and help others transition fast to a zero-carbon economy, rather than holding them back them by financing fossil fuel infrastructure overseas.
"That is the climate leadership the Prime Minister frequently boasts of, but has yet to deliver."
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