UK government is 'betting on the failure' of global plan to tackle climate change

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chairs a meeting of the cabinet. (Credit: Simon Walker/No 10/Flickr) Downing Street
This news article features comments by Professor Lord Nicholas Stern in response to the UK government’s decision to issue new oil and gas licences in the North Sea. Lord Stern is critical of the move, which he says will do next to nothing for security or for world prices and will be detrimental to efforts to tackle climate change.
ITV News, 1 August 2023