Campaign Against Climate Change activists demonstrated in London today to encourage the UK government to prioritise climate targets over short-term economic interests

 

Campaign Against Climate Change and climate activists demonstrated today to tell the UK government that we need more action on climate change. The demonstration started outside the Liberal Democrats Headquarters in Westminster, London and later moved to Downing Street.

 

 

Phil Thornhill of the Campaign against Climate Change said: 

"We are right to be relieved that the recommendations of the independent Committee on Climate Change have been accepted by the government but we should remain alarmed that short term economic concerns trump a potential catastrophe for billions."

"More important, there still remains a huge gap between the rapidly evolving climate science and action underway to tackle the climate crisis. The recommendations of the Climate Committee include an increase in biofuels which will do more harm than good, and do not account for the outsourcing of a very significant proportion of UK emissions to countries like China that are feeding our increasing demand for consumer goods."

"Meanwhile the very targets enshrined in the Climate Act are inadequate. This is what those at the sharp end of climate science are saying, like Professor Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre who says we should be looking at something more like 10% cuts a year or Doctor James Hansen who leads the climate research effort at NASA and says that two degrees of warming represents too great a risk.  Victory over the Climate Committee's recommendations should not blind us to the fact that until we have achieved a quantum leap in the scale of our response to the climate crisis we are still courting disaster."

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