"We have to be bolder at tackling climate change," says Shadow Environment Secretary
Luke Pollard, who's also MP for Plymouth, has been responding to a report by The Met Office
Plymouth MP and Shadow Environment Secretary Luke Pollard says the Government must take bolder action to tackle climate change.
His comments come as The Met Office says the UK is already experiencing increasingly extreme weather.
The organisation is warning British summer temperatures could regularly exceed 40 degrees, even if we manage to meet our climate targets.
2020 was among the top three warmest, sunniest and wettest years on record.
More than £860m is being invested in flood protection schemes across the UK over the next year but Mr. Pollard thinks no government in the world is currently doing enough to address the crisis.
He said: “We’re in the middle of a climate and ecological crisis. There is not a single Government on the planet that is doing enough to decarbonise and protect our natural world.
“We have to go further, we have to be bolder in making our communities more resilient to the extreme weather we are going to have more frequently.
“We also have to be bolder in cutting carbon, to make sure we are using less of the world’s precious resources and moving to a more sustainable economy.
“None of these things are easy but as we have seen from the report, it is absolutely essential that these things happen, and fast.”