In a week in which New York has responded to the global climate crisis with a lawsuit against fossil-fuel companies, and China has taken the lead in renewable energy investments, Theresa May’s government has used the launch of their 25 Year Plan for the Environment to announce – not much.
The Prime Minister launched the new environment strategy with a speech at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust’s Centre in Barnes.
- A Greenpeace statement querying the plan’s failure to support a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles.
- Friends of the Earth’s CEO, Craig Bennett, censuring its failure to “get to the heart of the problems – especially the nation’s fossil fuel addition”.
- The National Trust’s Government Affairs Director, Richard Hebditch, lamenting the scarcity of laws and institutions that can ensure the plan “isn’t just dependent on having a friendly minister who ‘gets it’.”
- Mary Creagh MP, Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, expressing concern that 2042 is too long to wait to reach zero “avoidable” plastic waste.
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