0 December 15, 2020 19:19 by Niamh Robinson
Holly Aldridge
The government have released a ten-point policy plan this month which has outlined how the UK is to become carbon-zero by 2050. A key feature of this ‘Green Industrial Revolution’, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called it, is the pledge to ban the sale of petrol cars by 2030.
Although this policy is a huge step forward in the government’s scheme to tackle climate change, there are multiple aspects of the plan that indicate that it will fall short of addressing the scale of the crisis.
Whilst this drastic change will mean that UK cities see cleaner air and reduced carbon emissions, the government’s proposals do not match the scale of the current climate crisis.