PM will ‘pour fuel on the fire’ of climate crisis if funding pledge dropped
Date: 5 July 2023
Campaigns: Climate
Reacting to reports that the UK is planning to drop its £11.6bn climate finance pledge(1), Izzie McIntosh, climate campaigner at Global Justice Now, said:
“Rishi Sunak was already set to plumb new depths of climate incompetence by giving the green light to new coal, oil and gas in this country. Now it seems he’s planning to scuttle the UK’s contribution to the global climate finance that is urgently needed and already long overdue. This would be a shameful failure.”
“The UK is one of the world’s biggest historical emitters, and home to two of the largest oil companies in BP and Shell. The government could meet this pledge many times over if it was strong enough to make these polluters pay. But Rishi Sunak seems to have stopped caring what happens after the next election. In climate terms, he is in a burning building pouring fuel on the fire on his way out the door.”
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1. Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge, 4 July 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/revealed-uk-plans-to-drop-flagship-climate-pledge-rishi-sunak
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Photo: Rishi Sunak as Chancellor takes a green ‘budget box’ to COP26. Credit: HM Treasury/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
