Local councils should focus on local matters, obviously. But some couldn’t resist jumping on the net zero climate bandwagon in the hope of looking trendy, or something. Then the US government jumped off it, and now demonising the vital gas carbon dioxide doesn’t look so trendy any more.
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Nigel Farage has urged Reform UK-led councils to ditch climate emergency targets amid concerns they are “massive diversions of time”, says GB News (via Climate Change Dispatch).
The Clacton MP has said it is not up to councils to deal with “global issues” and it would not make a difference if the plans were scrapped.
After the House of Commons agreed on a motion tabled by then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for Parliament to declare a climate emergency, local authorities pledged to decarbonize council facilities.
Between May 2019 and 2023, eight in 10 local authorities across Britain declared so-called climate emergencies.
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Now, Farage has called on councils to scrap their net-zero policies, after he said in May that staff working on climate change initiatives should be “seeking alternative careers”.
Farage told The Telegraph:
“They need to be scrapped. It’s not the job of county councils to deal with global issues, and it wouldn’t make any difference at all if they were scrapped.
“It costs money, and they are a massive diversion of time. It’s virtue-signalling.”
Full article here.
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