Scots eco campaigners said the PM needs to 'wake up' after the world's top energy watchdog warned his net zero U-turns could set the country back.
Rishi Sunak has been accused of “pressing snooze on the climate alarm” after the world’s top energy watchdog warned his net zero U-turns could harm the planet AND the economy.It has now forecast green technology will provide half the world’s electricity by 2030 - and that demand for coal, oil and gas will peak before then.
Scots eco campaigners seized on the remarks as evidence that Sunak must “wake up” and take “bold action” on the climate and green energy. “The world – particularly people living in poverty who are being hit first and worse by a crisis they did least to cause – can ill afford for him to continue pressing snooze on the climate alarm.”
Green MSP Mark Ruskell added: "Business as usual isn't good enough. Locally produced renewable energy is the cheapest, cleanest and greenest energy there is.” Top news stories today Sunak sparked fury this year after sanctioning more than 100 new North Sea licences, green-lighting the massive Rosebank oil field off Shetland and sanctioning the UK’s first new coal mine in decades in Cumbria.
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