While UK climate negotiators were meeting with ministers around the world at the beginning of last week about enacting the green promises in the COP26 Glasgow pact, Britain’s leaders were defending domestic oil and gas developments and rejecting calls for a windfall tax.
The gas crisis and international energy price spikes have increased pressure on the UK COP team led by Alok Sharma, which must hammer out the green deals and rally support for this November’s COP27 UN climate summit in Sharm el-Skeikh with host nation Egypt.
