NEWS: BBC News October 17, 2019
Climate change: Boris Johnson to chair new committee, but significant Loophole found!
The BBC reports “The prime minister is to chair a new cabinet committee on climate change to drive action to cut emissions across the government.
It follows long-standing criticism that some departments - especially transport - have failed to play their part in combating global heating.
This sort of top-level co-ordination is what green groups have been urging, but they’re still critical of other policy details.”
Read the full article here.
Yes, other policy details such as, an 18 year lag in the Government facing any fines for missing targets.
That’s quite some loophole identified by Greenpeace!
Greenpeace analysis of the new Environment Bill for a post Brexit UK shows that whilst “The Bill requires the government to set at least one legally binding target for each of these areas [air and water quality, plastic pollution, restore nature], to ensure the UK meets these ambitions. However, further analysis of the Bill by Greenpeace has exposed a major loophole that will give the government 18 years before it is legally required to meet any of the targets set.”
Read the full Greenpeace Press Release here.
Clearly this must be addressed in parliament before such a bill is passed. How else will any organisation, local or central authority feel any sense of urgency?
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