Sturgeon takes lead on green matters
MICHAEL Gove recently declared the Tories a “green” party.
It’s laughable when David Cameron once said that we should “get rid of all the green c**p” and one of Theresa May’s first actions in government was to remove the words “climate change” from the government department for energy and climate change.
The Tories have also been guilty of ditching carbon capture and storage, the promotion of fracking and the appointment of an environment secretary who voted against reducing the carbon dioxide emission rate permitted in new homes.
As countries around the world work to combat climate change and improve the future of this planet, the Tory Government are an embarrassment.
Thankfully, in Scotland we have an alternative.
Last week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was on the stage at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, addressing the world’s representatives on our need to tackle climate change and helping Scotland to be seen as a world leader.
After all, we have some of the most ambitious climate change legislation there is.
Nicola’s words to that conference say it all: “Tackling climate change is an overwhelming moral obligation.
“Our ambition must live up to the scale of the challenge, and our actions must live up to our ambition.”