would be economic insanity. we know that the market has already decided. whatever politicians say, the market has decided this transition is going to happen. coal use fell faster under president trump than it did under president 0bama despite all his efforts to prop it up. with respect, you re not answering my specific question, which many people will be very interested to hear your answer. no, you re right. so, i m delighted that he gets that, and i think he does get that. my concern about the labour party at the moment, and i don t say this as a tribal politician, because i m not a tribal politician, is that i think there is a blind spot on the natural environment. so everything, when the labour party thinks environment, when it talks about the environment, it s thinking carbon and taxation, regulation and all the things that go with that. and the simple truth is there is no pathway to net zero, there s no solution to climate change that does not involve nature, massive efforts to pr
he gave you a job in government. basically, you decided that you were going to stick with your mate, and that. not at all. ..is the reason why rishi sunak had no trust or faith in you. not at all. i think he did have confidence in me doing thisjob, i did a good job as environment minister. i think that on the world stage, the uk on my watch became the world leader on the environment, on climate. that s been recognised by countries all around the world, as we saw when i stepped down. my loyalty, i m a friend, of course, of borisjohnson in the political context. he s not someone i knew before i entered politics. hang on, you re a friend in every context you lent him your home in marbella! hang on a second. my loyalty, as anyone i ve worked with since i was 18 and became a committed environmentalist, will know, anyone in good faith will tell you my loyalty is to these issues. i am deeply concerned by what s happening to the natural world, i ve committed my life to tackling these issues.
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ago that the uk will reach its target for cutting carbon emissions. here s our climate editor justin rowlatt with more. what the report s saying is, look, you talk the talk on climate but do not walk the walk. what does that mean? it s all about delivery. it says delivery of its climate ambitions are worryingly slow. the ambitions, it says, are stretching, what they re talking about is a commitment made by borisjohnson in the run up to the big un climate conference we had in glasgow in 2021. he said the uk would cut emissions by 68% based on 1990 levels by the end of the decade, so we have seven years to get there. and that is a very ambitious target but it s a legally binding target and the job of the climate change committee, the official watchdog for the uk government on climate, is to judge whether or not it s going to make that target. it got a huge release of additional information as a result of a court case and it says that information has made it less confident rather than mor