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ENVIRONMENTAL campaign Greenpeace UK has called for Westminster action after a United Nations report said governments are abjectly failing to meet carbon emissions targets.
The UN report covers 196 countries that were part of the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change, warning: “Current national climate plans fall miles short of what’s needed to stop global heating from crippling every economy and wrecking billions of lives and livelihoods across every country.”
Greenpeace called on the government to take action.
Policy director Dr Doug Parr said: “Together with ending all new oil and gas licences, the Labour government must at least triple renewables and double home energy efficiency rates by 2030, as well as properly support workers to transition away from polluting industries.
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