| A British decision to leave the European Union represents a major threat to the success of the Paris Agreement in Europe, according to the Chair of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) Lord Deben. Speaking at an event in London late last week hosted by the think tank IPPR, Lord Deben warned 'Brexit' would be a major setback to climate action, hampering both Britain and the European Union's ability to decarbonise.
"I'm quite clear that if Britain left the European Union it would put this back, as far as us and the rest of the European Union, very, very considerably," he said of efforts to slash emissions across the bloc. "Brexit is a real threat to Paris, and we have to accept that because we cannot allow ourselves to go backwards in the mechanisms which we have created for working together."..............................................Full Article: Source |