The new chair of the UK Climate Change Committee is in Northern Ireland for a two-day fact-finding mission, amid calls for courage and leadership on climate action.
The new chair of the UK Climate Change Committee is in Northern Ireland for a two-day fact-finding mission, amid calls for courage and leadership on climate action.
Two days of fact-finding. Cute. Northern Ireland’s agriculture sector pumps out roughly 27% of the region’s emissions — the highest share of any UK nation — and its homes are the coldest, leakiest, most fuel-poor in the country. A chair with a clipboard won’t touch that. Neither will a minister who’s terrified of farmers. Courage, they say. Two days and a train back to London isn’t leadership; it’s tourism.