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A protester sits outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, where climate campaigner Greta Thunberg is appearing charged, along with four other activists, with a public order offence during a protest in central London last year, February 1, 2024
MORE than half the public oppose Labour’s decision to scrap its “green prosperity plan,” a new survey reveals.
The party had pledged to invest £28 billion a year on green projects, but the promise was gradually diluted and last week it announced a complete U-turn, reducing investment plans to address climate change to just £23.7bn over the whole course of the next parliament.
But a Nature 2030 campaign survey conducted by Yonder found 54 per cent of people believe Labour should have kept the pledge.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
The electorate see no evidence of the government’s promises of change, and the good jobs and decent pay that people are crying out for. Bold action is needed right now, warns SHARON GRAHAM
