COP29: “Government needs to move further and faster to tackle root cause of emissions – fossil fuels”, campaigners say
Date: 12 November 2024
Campaigns: Climate
Responding to the PM’s remarks at COP29, Izzie McIntosh, climate campaign manager at Global Justice Now said:
Making our emission reduction targets more ambitious is a step in the right direction. If Starmer is serious about climate action, however, his government needs to move further and faster to tackle the root cause of emissions: fossil fuels. This can’t be done with business as usual, or by luxuriating in fantasies of carbon capture and other experimental technologies holding the key.
“Starmer is right to present the green transition as an opportunity not a threat, but that has to include defending and arguing for the values of collective action and global solidarity over individualism and self-interest. So far he is failing to do so, but that would be true leadership.”
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