Is Rishi Sunak the kind of climate ‘leader’ that Britain and the world need

Sue Nethercott
6 min readDec 26, 2023

He likes to think he is, but saying it does not make it so.

Sunak delivering a speech at COP27 in Egypt
Sunak delivering a speech at COP27 in Egypt — Prime Minister’s Office of the United Kingdom

COP28 is over

So, COP28 is over and they actually came to an agreement which mentioned fossil fuels for the first time, and included agriculture. Big oil knew they were impacting the climate way back in the 1980s, yet they hosted the summit and…

--

--

Sue Nethercott

Open University BA, UMIST MSc, OU BSc Environmental Studies. Interests: environment, COVID19. Double #ostomate. Thom Hartmann’s newsletter editor. Views my own.