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Boris Johnson fails to honour Parliament’s climate emergency vote

The missed target comes as an opinion poll revealed that most Brits say climate change will influence their general election.

Ben Gelblum by Ben Gelblum
2019-11-02 13:05
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The government failed to bring urgent plans to tackle the climate and environment emergency in time to meet the six month deadline set by parliament.

The missed target comes as an opinion poll revealed that most Brits say climate change will influence their general election.

The climate and emergency motion, passed by parliament on the 1 May 2019,  “calls on the Government to lay before the House within the next six months urgent proposals to restore the UK’s natural environment and to deliver a circular, zero waste economy.”

Yet since parliament’s declaration of a climate and environment emergency the Conservative government has failed to pursue policies adequate to the scale of the crisis.

The Government missed the target voted by MPs after warnings from the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change that to avoid the devastation of a more than 1.5°C rise in global warming, global emissions would need to fall by around 45 per cent from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero by around 2050.

According to Labour in the six months since the declaration of a climate and environment emergency, the Tories have continued to pursue policies that are damaging to the natural environment in the UK and abroad. These include:

  • Maintaining the ban on onshore wind while forcing through dangerous fracking that will scar our environment;
  • Pursuing local government cuts that have seen record amounts of litter on our streets while prosecutions for fly-tipping are at a ten year low;
  • Creating a “hostile environment” for renewables, leading to clean energy investment plummeting in the last three years;
  • Proceeding with cuts to Natural England that have seen its core budget cut in half since 2010, with devastating consequences for our environment;
  • Continuing to use UK Export Finance to subsidise fracking and fossil fuel extraction abroad.

The Prime Minister has also sparked fears by hiring a fracking lobbyist to write the Conservative manifesto.

Sue Hayman MP, Shadow Environment Secretary said:

“By ignoring the climate and environment emergency, Boris Johnson has shown that he cannot be trusted to save our planet.

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“This election is our last chance to stop the climate and environment emergency.

“The next Labour government will usher in a Green Industrial Revolution to tackle climate change. Labour has a radical, credible plan for tackling the climate crisis and creating a million good, unionised green jobs across the country.”

Government’s fracking u-turn

Jeremy Corbyn speaks to anti-fracking protesters outside the gate at the Preston New Road shale gas exploration site in Lancashire (Peter Byrne/PA)
Jeremy Corbyn speaks to anti-fracking protesters outside the gate at the Preston New Road shale gas exploration site in Lancashire (Peter Byrne/PA)

On Friday the Government announced that there would be a moratorium on controversial fracking after new scientific analysis on the risks.

The shock U-turn comes after a report by the Oil and Gas Authority found it is not currently possible to accurately predict the probability or magnitude of earthquakes linked to fracking operations.

But Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Andrea Leadsom immediately suggested another U-turn on fracking was being prepared, insisting the pause was only “temporary” until new technology allowed the process to resume.

Leadsom described the Conservatives’ announcement about pausing fracking as a “disappointment”, saying that fracking is a “huge opportunity” for the UK and that we will need shale gas for “the next several decades.”

Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, said: “This confirms that the Tories are only temporarily pausing fracking to try to win a few votes. They have no intention of stopping fracking, which Boris Johnson described as ‘glorious news for humanity’.

“Labour will ban fracking. That’s real change,” she added. “The Conservatives usually wait until after elections before breaking their promises but this time they’ve u-turned on their fracking policy within hours of announcing it.”

Most Brits say climate change will influence their general election vote says new poll

More than half of people say climate change will influence the way they vote in the next general election, a poll published this week suggests.

Almost two thirds (63%) agree that politicians are not discussing the issue of climate change enough in the run up to the next national vote, the poll for environmental lawyers ClientEarth found.

The climate and environment emergency motion tabled by the Labour Party and passed by the House of Commons on 1st May after the international climate change panel issued dire warnings was as follows:

That this House declares an environment and climate emergency following the finding of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change that to avoid a more than 1.5°C rise in global warming, global emissions would need to fall by around 45 per cent from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero by around 2050; recognises the devastating impact that volatile and extreme weather will have on UK food production, water availability, public health and through flooding and wildfire damage; notes that the UK is currently missing almost all of its biodiversity targets, with an alarming trend in species decline, and that cuts of 50 per cent to the funding of Natural England are counterproductive to tackling those problems; calls on the Government to increase the ambition of the UK’s climate change targets under the Climate Change Act 2008 to achieve net zero emissions before 2050, to increase support for and set ambitious, short-term targets for the roll-out of renewable and low carbon energy and transport, and to move swiftly to capture economic opportunities and green jobs in the low carbon economy while managing risks for workers and communities currently reliant on carbon intensive sectors; and further calls on the Government to lay before the House within the next six months urgent proposals to restore the UK’s natural environment and to deliver a circular, zero waste economy.

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