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UK climate change policies are ‘dangerously optimistic’

MPs have been warned that the government’s climate change policies are “dangerously optimistic”.

Professor Kevin Anderson, a leading UK climate scientist, was addressing MPs on the environmental audit committee. He said that the government’s planned carbon cuts – if followed internationally – would have a “fifty-fifty chance” of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2C. This is the threshold, defined by the EU, as leading to “dangerous” climate change. Anderson warned that that the government’s proposed cuts are not significant enough. He urged the UK to raise the target of reducing emissions from a 34% cut to 40% cut (relative to 1990 levels). 

Anderson called for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), run by Ed Miliband, to be given more power. He commented that the two government departments most directly involved with climate change policy (Decc and Defra) were like "small dogs yapping at the heels" of more powerful departments.

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