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The Guardian view on Labour’s green retreat: wrong, wrong, wrong | Editorial
Keir Starmer’s announcement is a historic mistake on economic, political and environmental grounds
On Thursday, they finally made it official. For the first time, the EU’s climate change service confirms, global warming has exceeded 1.5C above preindustrial levels across an entire year. The speed and scale of that rise represents a terrifying precedent if it is not reversed, and a shocking act of collective damage to the planet.
It also casts Thursday’s other grim climate announcement – Labour’s long-trailed decision to retreat from its signature commitment to spend £28bn a year equipping the economy to reach its climate targets – into even starker relief. Labour ended up choosing an embarrassing day to make its announcement. But the truth is that any day would have been a bad day for such a humiliating rowback.
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Circumstances have changed, our ambitions have not. That’s what you need to know now about our green plan | Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
No one expected the Tories to crash the economy like they did. Building a greener Britain means being honest about this
The coming election will be a once-in-a-generation choice: between five more years of economic failure or a long-term plan to invest in Britain’s future. At the beginning of a new age of economic and technological change, we have the chance to seize these historic opportunities so we can once again be a thriving, prosperous nation.
We are under no illusion about the scale of the challenge facing us. Taxes are at a 70-year high, our public services are on their knees, the national debt is continuing to rise, and the cost of living crisis is still biting for families across our country. These are not signs of a successful economy. They are the symptoms of 14 years of economic failure and a Britain that is worse off.
Continue reading...Climate Impact Partners and UK-based charity launch biodiversity conservation programme
Responsible investor group targets 40 major companies to raise engagement on biodiversity
Environment Agency ‘letting River Wye go into a death spiral’, say campaigners
Judicial review looking at claims agency allowed destructive levels of nutrients from chicken manure to enter waterway
One of the country’s favourite rivers is going into a “death spiral” say campaigners, as lawyers argued in court that the Environment Agency was failing to apply the law and save the waterway.
Anti-pollution charity River Action took the Environment Agency (EA) to court on Wednesday for a judicial review, claiming it is allowing destructive levels of nutrients from chicken manure to enter the River Wye.
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