The Tory MP for Reading West had criticised Rishi Sunak's watering down of key green policies.
COP26 President Sir Alok Sharma has announced he will not stand at the next general election.
The Conservative MP for Reading West said he had informed the constituency association he did not wish to be a candidate for the revised seat of Reading West & Mid Berkshire.He recently criticised Rishi Sunak's announcement of exemptions and delays to several key green policies. Sir Alok, who has represented the Berkshire seat since 2010, posted on Twitter, now known as X: "It has been the honour of my life to serve as the MP for a constituency in the town where I grew up and a privilege to serve in Government and represent the UK on the international stage."It ended with a deal being struck in a bid to stave off severe climate change. The pact was the first ever UN climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal - the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.
But the pledges did not go far enough to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, seen by scientists as the threshold for dangerous impacts from global warming.
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