"Racical action" needed on climate emergency, says Stone
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Liberal Democrat candidate Jamie Stone has said the time has come to take "radical action" on the climate emergency.
He was speaking today as his party set out £100 billion spending plans, including generating 80 per cent of the country's electricity from renewables and retrofitting all homes by 2030.
The Lib Dems say they would cut greenhouse gases in every sector of the economy to achieve net zero and insist their programme is fully costed.
It would involve:
- Generating 80 per cent of our electricity from renewables by 2030
- Retrofitting all homes – cutting energy bills – and targeting those in fuel poverty first
- Ensuring all new cars sold are electric by 2030
- Banning all non-essential non-recyclable single-use plastic within three years
- Reinstating the Department for Climate Change and Renewable Energy which the Conservative Government closed in 2016
Mr Stone, the party's candidate for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross in Thursday's general election, said: “We are in the midst of a climate emergency and we need to take radical action now. The Liberal Democrats have a fully costed, bold plan to protect our planet now and for generations to come.
Young people across the world have been crying out for politicians to take action on the climate crisis.
“Neither Labour nor the Tories have a real plan for the climate emergency and Greenpeace has criticised the SNP for its lack of climate action.
“Young people across the world have been crying out for politicians to take action on the climate crisis. The Lib Dems are listening and will make real change happen.
“Only the Liberal Democrats have a realistic but radical plan to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 and only the Liberal Democrats are serious about tackling the climate emergency and building a brighter future.”
