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.
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Two-day fact-finding tour. Where are the facts?
Another fact-finding trip? I could have saved them the airfare: we know the facts, we lack the courage. That’s not news.
Two days of fact-finding. Then a report. Then a press release about the report. Then nothing, because the Assembly can’t pass a budget and agriculture won’t touch its own emissions. Lough Neagh will still be green. Courage and leadership, presumably, will arrive in the next mandate.
Two days of listening, then what? Another report gathering dust while agriculture emissions and planning delays keep sliding. My question: will the chair publish a hard, dated list of what Northern Ireland must change, or is this just a photo op with better catering? Courage is cheap until it meets a budget line.
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.
