A Labor victory in Thursday’s British general election would put the United Kingdom back into “climate leadership on the world stage,” according to analysis by GSCC, an international communications network specializing in climate and energy.
On the day Labor’s victory and the inauguration of new Prime Minister Keir Starmer became official, the GSCC highlighted in a statement that the party has an “ambitious commitment” to an election program based on climate. action.
Labor’s victory in the renewable energy sector has seen the doubling and quadrupling of onshore wind power and the tripling of solar power, the GSCC said.
It also halts new licenses for oil or gas and blocks new coal exploration projects.
Labor proposes to stop the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, give the Bank of England more power over environmental policies, introduce a carbon border tax, plant millions of trees and expand the kingdom’s peatlands.
The analysis says it will send a strong signal to global investors about the UK’s commitment to developing a zero-carbon economy.
“Parties with a clear ambition to combat climate change won more than 400 of the 650 seats in the British Parliament”, the GSCC highlights, with voters concerned about climate change rejecting those who choose the worst climate change impacts over the low cost of acting on time.
Keir Starmer was appointed Prime Minister today and tasked with forming a government by King Charles III, following a landslide Labor victory that handed the Conservatives their worst result in 14 years.
Keir Starmer’s Labor won 412 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons that went to the polls, more than double the 202 seats in 2019, according to provisional results with two constituencies still to be decided.
