This is why several governments and parliaments, the UK’s among them, have declared a climate emergency. 'Chuffed to be chosen': participants attend first UK climate assembly Read moreIts latest report, on changing the UK’s land use, is so unambitious that, in some respects, it would take us backwards. The committee has set the wrong target, for the wrong date. It’s not just the target that’s wrong, but the very notion of setting targets in an emergency. The appropriate response to the climate emergency is a legal duty to maximise climate action.

Source: The Guardian January 29, 2020 06:01 UTC