Friday 15 November 2019

UK ‘must drive wide decarbonisation, not pick and choose certain areas’

UK ‘must drive wide decarbonisation, not pick and choose certain areas’

The government must encourage societal decarbonisation and not just "pick and choose" certain areas.

That's the call from Extinction Rebellion's Adam Woodhall, who spoke as part of the panel at Energy Live Expo last week in Westminster.

He noted as businesses aren't always able to see the wider effects of their behaviours, the government must set clearer parameters in terms of legislation and where it distributes funding.

He stressed although the government funds renewable energy and supports clean technologies "to a degree", many departments are still supporting fossil fuel projects, citing the Treasury's recent approval of a new coal mine in Cumbria.

Mr Woodhall said: "What we've got to is be aware and honest about what we're doing.

"What my point to the Minister would have been is yes, in some areas you're enabling a rapid decarbonisation but what we need is a very rapid decarbonisation and rapid de-ecocide across many areas and unfortunately if you want to keep the nice society we've got at the moment, you can't just pick and choose where it's possible to do it."

Written by

Bruna Pinhoni

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