Campaigners speak out amid suggestion government could reject Climate Change Committee’s advice
Rishi Sunak faces “electoral carnage” if the government rejects its climate advisers’ recommendations on halting airport expansion, a coalition of community groups have warned.
Greenpeace also said it was confident that ignoring the CCC’s advice would make it easier to challenge airport expansion plans in the courts. “Rather than Uxbridge, they should be looking at what happened in the local elections recently where you saw a surge in Tory councillors losing their seats and being replaced by Lib Dems, Greens and others as a result of very real concerns about the climate crisis,” said Sally Pavey of CAGNE, who added that MPs in corresponding Westminster seats should be “very nervous”.
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