UK climate change policy
A critique of the climate policy in the Labour Party’s 2024 manifesto lists a range of positive aims, but also points to the absence of some “essential policies that must be pushed forwards in the next parliament” (Big Issue, 2024). Among the positive aims are expanding nature-rich habitats “as part of moving to a circular economy ”, ending pollution of our rivers and seas through a range of sanctions on failing water firms, and reclaiming the UK’s “global climate and nature leadership role via an international Clean Power Alliance”. Fracking would be banned, there would be a new windfall tax on oil and gas companies , and a just transition to a clean energy future. Notably absent are any announcements to “revoke existing oil and gas licences, like Rosebank, and to end outrageous fossil fuel subsidies ”. While FTSE 100 companies will be required to “implement transition plans that align with the Paris Agreement” there appears to be no obligation on the government to have a “credible 1.