Britain will go no faster than other countries in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the government has signalled.
In a speech setting out the government’s position on climate change, Amber Rudd, the energy secretary, said that the need to cut emissions had to be balanced against the requirement to protect the economy and keep down energy bills. –Ben Webster, The Times, 24 July 2015
Amber Rudd also signalled that she would stop Britain’s policy of unilateral decarbonisation at a faster rate than other countries, as mandated in Mr Miliband’s Climate Change Act of 2008. Supposing the Paris conference produces its expected fudge, what should our energy policy look like?
The Poles and other Eastern European countries are opposed to going it alone again, even before a non-binding agreement in Paris.
That will give the British government the opportunity to revisit its own targets. According to part 1, section 2, of the Climate Change Act, the secretary of state has the power to amend the act’s CO2 targets if there is a significant change in international climate policy. She should grasp it.
–Matt Ridley, The Times, 27 July 2015
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