UK Government Is Ignoring Public Opinion on Climate Change UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak continues to delay climate action despite public backing for green policy, new Greenpeace UK survey finds. He insists his decision to delay aims to reduce financial impact on “working families,” but many que...
Where the UK leads on climate change, few other countries should wish to follow. Leadership on the issue has been a long-standing priority of British politics. The government even adopted carbon-reduction standards tougher than needed to satisfy European Union targets, although the country remains ...
And people may really revolt when it comes to boilers, because that is an absolute necessity of life in the UK, and the government messes with that at its peril. The general view in the UK at the moment seems to be (from anecdotal accounts only) that they cost a bomb both to in...
A report from the Committee on Climate Change said the government must adopt ambitious goals if it wants to be a leader in the fight against global warming and limit the impact of climate change. While Britain has laid the groundwork to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, existing...
Hundreds of climate change activists gathered in the heart of London's political center Westminster to pressure the UK government to act on climate change and the cost of living crisis. The "We All Want to Just Stop Oil" coalition included multiple organizations, including Ins...
The government's own analysis last week showed that recent major methods, such as banning new oil-fueled car sales by 2030, had failed to do enough to put the UK on track even for the old goal of 57% by 2032.”(显然,如果英国要实现这一新目标,还需要采取更多的行动。英国政府自己上周的...
The Confederation of British Industry said the report “mark[s] a new dawn for climate change action in the UK”, and called on the government to support and enact the target in a timely fashion. But climate protesters, who have called for a net zero target of 2025, dismissed it...
UK climate change risk-assessment: government report. London: The Stationary Of- ficeDefra. 2012a. UK Climate Change Risk Assessment: Government Report. London: The Stationery Office.CCRA, 2012. UK Climate Change Risk Assessment: Government Report. HM Government. 43 p....
For example, last year the Governmentonly 10.(manage) to create 14.2 square kilometres of new woodland. 2【题目】语法填空(二阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。The UK'slargest eve tree-planting drive has been organized by the Woodland Trust,the charity I.protects ...
The British government has published a book on "dangerous climate change", warning that the world may be close to a "tipping point" beyond which lies sudden and irreversible damage to some of the planet's basic life-support systems. "It's the irreversibility that I think brings it home to...