Ed Miliband responds to Climate Action Tracker report

Ed Miliband, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, responding to the Climate Action Tracker report which states that Glasgow has a massive credibility, action and commitment gap, with the world heading to at least 2.4C of warming, said:

"The test of COP26 has always been what concrete commitments it would deliver by 2030, the decisive decade to keep 1.5C alive. This report is an important reality check on the government's attempt to greenwash Glasgow.  

"For all their COP26 spin, the government cannot hide from the science. The summit has failed to confront the scale of the action necessary, and they have undermined their own climate cause by over-claiming what they have achieved from coal to trees – talking up modest progress in Glasgow as transformational, with big emitters too often getting off the hook.

“The government now has a crucial role to facilitate an agreement which closes the gap between their climate rhetoric and the reality of this report. All countries urgently need to step up the ambition and to agree to revisit these issues well before 2025, otherwise the chance to limit global warming to 1.5C will slip irrevocably through our hands."