Ministers have failed to develop coherent strategies for cutting emissions from the most polluting sectors of the economy, and are not matching their climate rhetoric with action, the UK government’s environmental adviser warned on Thursday.
In a highly critical report on the government’s progress on delivering economy-wide emissions cuts, the Climate Change Committee said decarbonisation plans for key sectors, such as housing, had been repeatedly delayed, and that it was “hard to discern any comprehensive strategy in the climate plans we have seen in the past 12 months”.
John Gummer, also known as Lord Deben, chair of the CCC, said: “Almost all things that should have happened have either been delayed or . . . haven’t hit the mark.”
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