Rishi Sunak’s small state conservatism will not match the big challenge of climate change ✒️ paulwaugh via ipaperviews
and the signing of the UK-EU Windsor Framework on post-Brexit trade, there’s another course of controversy due to arrive as the Commons rises for its break on Thursday.It’s unclear if Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps is a fan of the US post-punk band of that same name .
Thursday happens to be the last possible moment in the parliamentary calendar for Shapps to meet another hard deadline after a High Court judge last year gave ministers until the end of March 2023 to set out their climate change plans., a formal response will be issued. A new Green Finance Strategy should give details of carbon capture, use and storage schemes . Plans for more new modular nuclear power reactors are anticipated too.
And after so many false dawns, it’s not surprising that environmentalists are reserving judgement on Shapps until they see the colour, and quantity, of his money., only for it quickly to emerge that no new money would appear this side of the next general election. Just as disappointing, the Chancellor didn’t fast-track any of the £6bn earmarked for home energy insulation either.
Earlier this month, it emerged that Thérèse Coffey’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was one of the worst offenders in failing to develop green policy, lagging a staggering 24 per cent behind its official target. The Department of Transport had a gap “considerably over five per cent” too.that the statutory Climate Change Committee had “criticised the ‘glacial progress’ in reducing emissions from agriculture”.
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