Posted on 04/25/2018 5:47:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The number of full-time officials dedicated to climate change in the Foreign Office has dropped by almost 25% in the two years since Boris Johnson became foreign secretary, according to data released under freedom of information (FoI) rules.
Johnson has also failed to mention climate change in any official speech since he took the office, in marked contrast to his two predecessors.
The cutback in climate change diplomacy has come despite the prime minister, Theresa May, asserting that the UK leads the world on climate action. The UK has been praised for its past climate diplomacy, which helped pave the way to the landmark Paris agreement.
“It is extremely disappointing,” said Prof Sir David King, who was the foreign secretary’s special envoy for climate change from September 2013 until March 2017.
“Yes, we have the Paris agreement, but everybody knows the difference between what the agreement says – if possible no more than 1.5C rise – and what countries have promised is enormous,” he said. “There is a very big amount of work to be done. Other countries have had an enormous amount of respect for what Britain has delivered. If you then cut back the British effort then of course there is a real danger that the focus drifts away.”
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Will need all the rise we can get.
So what’s the bad news?
Less money for “Global Warming researchers”
climate staff = people sitting around the office with nothing to do ,LOL
Why should their be any “climate” or “climate change” positions in the foreign office? To me, they have no place in the foreign office. Maybe, you are politically correct such positions are in some other national agency, but should the foreign office ever need their “expertise” they can call on them without expanding the “climate change” bureaucracy into all realms of government.
Boris should be PM.
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