Climate action under attack with false claims

ON Thursday 6th November, UK Prime Minister Starmer will attend one day of the COP30 Climate Summit of world leaders in Brazil. This last-minute decision is more a reaction to political competition than any commitment to reducing global heating emissions or preventing climate collapse.

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The majority of voters recognise climate change as a real and present danger, even if they don't want tax rises to deal with it. Labour has to pretend to "Green" credentials even while maintaining core commitment to the future of the fossil-fuel economy and infrastructure - the industries that are destroying our Planet at speed.

From the far-Right, the flailing Tory Badenoch is competing with Farage to be the greatest "climate denier", of use to Starmer in being able to argue we must not go too far or too fast.

Climate action is under attack with false claims that the cost of living crisis and job losses are caused by green policies and 'net zero'.

But the UK is facing increased heatwaves and drought, alongside floods threatening homes and farmers' crops. In the UK, temperatures reached a previously impossible 40C record in 2022, with higher to come.

Our workplaces and homes are poorly equipped to cope with these heatwaves, which cause not just stress and hardship but thousands of excess deaths.