Keir Starmer committed the UK to a massive cut in carbon emissions at the COP29 summit today - despite the host hailing oil and gas as a 'gift from God'. Sir Keir is one of the only premiers from the wealthiest nations for the annual gathering.
The COP29 summit was at risk of descending into shambles today as the host hailed oil and gas as a 'gift from God'.
He used a press conference at the Baku summit - snubbed by many world leaders but attended by the Taliban - to deny he will need to tell Brits 'how to live' in order to meet the ambitious goal. The Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev insisted countries should not be embarrassed about selling fossil fuelsMatiul Haq Khalis, the head of Afghanistan's Environmental Protection Agency, spoke to the media about the impact of climate change on the country
Senior figures from the EU and China are also absent from what is feared will be yet another talking shop that achieves little or nothing in the way of concrete action. The government's Climate Change Committee has suggested that about 10 per cent of the saving in its plan to cut emissions by 2035 comes from changes that reduce demand for carbon-intensive activity, particularly 'an accelerated shift in diets away from meat and dairy products, reductions in waste, slower growth in flights and reductions in travel demand'.
'We are not going to start dictating to people what they do. But we are going to be clear that that involves hitting the clean power 2030 mission that we have set out, one of the five big projects of the Government. During energy questions in the Commons, Ms Coutinho claimed that for the Government to reach that goal it would require a 'shift away from meat and dairy' and 'less travel'.
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