Commenting on Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s speech at the COP31 Leaders Summit, Greenpeace UK head of politics Ami McCarthy (they/them) said:
“Andy Burnham’s COP speech hit the right notes, but the noises off stage about a massive new oil field and laxer rules on electric cars almost drowned him out. Appointing the world’s first climate security envoy is a welcome move, but approving Rosebank would only increase the climate threat level to communities in Britain and around the world. Supporting an ambitious global electrification goal is the right thing to do, but the gesture feels hollow without signing up to the pledge and with the cabinet discussing watering down our own EV targets back home. There are so many elephants in the room you’d think it’s a zoo. Burnham needs to start bridging the widening chasm between words and deeds on climate action. The choices he makes over the coming weeks and months will decide if his speech today was more than hot air.”
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