Dominic Murphy , 2025-05-09 14:05:00
The row over climate emergency policies has intensified after a report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) called for a radical reset in the way the world tackles global heating.1 In a headline grabbing line in the foreword Blair said that “any strategy based on either ‘phasing out’ fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail.”What does the report criticise?The urgency of the need to tackle climate change is not up for debate. It is an existential threat and a public health emergency, causing death and illness through increasing numbers of heatwaves and floods, helping spread infectious diseases, and more.2 Nor is there a problem with the idea of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the UK, where the amount of gas we produce is balanced by the amount we’re removing from the atmosphere.Instead the report takes issue with…
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Climate emergency: Tony Blair Institute sparks row with call to rethink net zero strategy
