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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Fiona Harvey and Helena Horton

Tory energy spokesman claims UN climate experts are ‘biased’

The IPCC has set out the need for global emissions to reach net zero by 2050 to have a chance of limiting temperature rises to 1.5C.
The IPCC has set out the need for global emissions to reach net zero by 2050 to have a chance of limiting temperature rises to 1.5C. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

The Conservative party’s energy spokesperson has attacked leading climate scientists as biased and claimed Kemi Badenoch could take the UK out of the Paris climate agreement.

Andrew Bowie, the acting shadow secretary for energy, told the Guardian that the target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – passed into law by Theresa May – was “arbitrary” and “not based on science”.

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