Climate Change Committee issue stark warning

Lord Deben, Chair of the Climate Change Committee, has issued a stark warning to Prime Minister Sunak.

In a letter accompanying the Committee's 2023 Progress report he gave the following warning.

The failure to act decisively in response to the energy crisis and build on the success of hosting COP26 means that the UK has lost its clear global climate leadership while game-changing interventions from the US and Europe, which will turbocharge growth of renewables, are leaving the UK behind. Inaction has been compounded by continuing support for further unnecessary investment in fossil fuels.

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Our children will not forgive us if we leave them a world of withering heat and devastating storms where sea level rises and extreme temperatures force millions to move because their countries are no longer habitable. None of us can avoid our responsibility. Delay is not an option.