This is a really informative and helpful editorial by James Murray of Business Green who brings together much of the common concerns being expressed by John Cridland of the CBI and The Committee on Climate Change among a host of others.
James Murray Editor of Business Green ‘Al Gore is puzzled by David Cameron and the UK political scene, and it has nothing to do with porcine relations or the inherent democratic flaws in the system of House of Lords patronage. Instead, Gore is bemused by the gaping chasm between the Prime Minister’s rhetoric and action on climate change and the self-defeating volte faces that define UK energy and climate change policy, to which the only possible response from the UK’s battered green business community is ‘you and me both, mate’.
Gore’s intervention, delivered to an event hosted by Green Alliance, is surprising only in its forthrightness. The former vice president’s analysis of the way the UK government is at risk of squandering a hard-earned reputation for leadership on climate change, as well as historic reputation for leadership in the world’s great economic and cultural transitions, is entirely unsurprising. In lamenting the way the UK appears to be making the wrong choice between the “hard right and the easy wrong” he elegantly skewers the manner in which Ministers have repeatedly allowed short term political concerns to override the long term need to provide a stable policy base from which to decarbonise the UK economy. To read more go to: