Oil Change responds to the UK’s Conservative Party’s Major Reversal on Climate Action
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In response to the Opposition Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch’s plans to scrap the party’s commitment to net zero by 2050, Rosemary Harris, Senior North Sea Campaigner at Oil Change International said:
“It seems almost unbelievable that it was only 2019 when the governing Conservative Party oversaw the UK becoming the first major economy to legislate a net-zero by 2050 target. Badenoch has claimed her party is going to “deal with reality”, but clearly this does not include the reality of a climate breakdown and the need for urgent action. This not only flies in the face of science, but also demonstrates abject moral cowardice.
“At a time when climate leadership is popular among voters and essential for keeping below 1.5C, it is a stunning move from the leader of the Conservative Party that only recently was touting its climate credentials on the international stage.”