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“Alok Sharma unable to defend the indefensible – he was doing well on #Marr until he had to answer why his Government is going ahead with a new oil field at Cambo. First rule of diplomacy is to #WalkYourTalk – shamefully the UK isn’t.”
“Too often we see people hide behind online anonymity, and it certainly emboldens them to be more and more abusive.”
Globally, 17% of all food is wasted, creating an estimated 8 to 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
A police watchdog investigation found that failings in the case were not due to ethnicity.
Pressure is building on financial groups backing fossil fuel extraction schemes in the final run-up to the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
The activists are calling on the government to end all fossil fuel investments.
“George Eustice describes himself as being “quite happy” about Brexit being twice as bad for the U.K. economy as the pandemic. What a time to be alive.”
‘At a time of fragile economic recovery the government is squeezing household budgets, workers and pensioners. There is no sign of levelling-up.’
Faced with a choice of setting out an ambitiously green budget, on the eve of a global climate summit that the government will be hosting, Rishi Sunak opted for business as usual.
‘To effect the change we so urgently need, local authorities must embed zero carbon approaches to managing, funding, procuring, commissioning and delivering services but they need the sufficient resources to do this.’
