The UK’s outgoing climate change tsar has told the Record the Westminster and Holyrood governments are both “fiddling about” while the planet burns.
Lord Deben, who has just finished a 10-year term as chair of the Climate Change Committee, slammed the Tories and the SNP for failing to hit their green targets. But the former Conservative politician – who was known as John Gummer when he served as environment minister in the 90s – reserved his fiercest criticism for Rishi Sunak’s Government.
He accused the Tories of “hiding from logic” by backing new oil and coal projects in the face of the unfolding climate disaster that threatens the world with “extinction”. Lord Deben said UK ministers would “live to regret” policies like green-lighting more than 100 new North Sea licences and approving a “deeply retrograde” new coal mine in Cumbria.
