Cop31: ‘The crisis is upon us now’, Burnham tells climate summit

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham addressed delegates at the third day of the COP31 climate summit, warning that the crisis is already underway. Green Party leader Zack Polanski criticized the speech and pointed to the government’s approval of drilling at the Jackdaw gasfield as inconsistent with climate action.

World leaders including UK prime minister Andy Burnham are addressing the summit today, as talks head into the third day Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party in the UK, criticised Andy Burnham’s Cop31 speech on Radio 4’s Today programme. Saying he was “not at all reassured” by the prime minister’s words, he described it as a “bizarre” speech. Polanski said climate action is about what you do, not what you say, referring to the recent decision by the energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, to allow drilling in the Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea. It’s “one step forwards, two steps back”, Polanski said. Continue reading...