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Britons want real action on climate change, but Boris Johnson’s govt missing in action on this

UK Energy Policy, Independent 12th Jan 2020
Boris Johnson was today facing calls to step up action on global warming,
after a poll for The Independent found overwhelming support for radical
change to end the UK’s net carbon emissions by the end of the decade.
Some 70 per cent of those questioned by pollsters BMG said they supported
the target of net-zero emissions by 2030, with only 7 per cent opposing it.
And support for swift action over the next 10 years was high across all age
ranges, social groups and parts of the country, countering perceptions of a
generational or urban/rural split on the climate emergency.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-climate-change-emergency-carbon-emission-cuts-a9280726.html

Independent 8th Jan 2020, Ministers are under fire after revealing their strategy to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will not be released until the end of the year. It means the plans – which will require huge and potentially unpopular changes to transport, energy and agriculture – will only emerge more than a year after the legal commitment was made.

“If this is true, it doesn’t really smack of a government treating this issue as a climate emergency,” said Clive Lewis, Labour’s Treasury spokesman and a
leadership candidate. And Wera Hobhouse, the Liberal Democrat climate
emergency spokesperson, pointing to the wildfire crisis in Australia, said:
“While the world is waking up to the dangers of climate change, this Tory
government is still on holiday.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/net-zero-carbon-emissions-strategy-ministers-climate-change-emergency-a9274151.html

January 14, 2020 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, politics, UK

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