Parliament discusses the Climate emergency during Question time revealing that the plan to meet Net Zero may not be met in 2050 and that there is a lot more work to be done before Climate Change will be managed.
With only two days (29th January) until the UK leaves the European Union many would think that the Question Time that took place would only discuss the topic of Brexit.
However, this was not the case. Jeremey Corbyn; the leader of the Labour party, was the first to bring the issue up to Prime Minister and Conservative leader, Boris Johnson as he questioned him if "As a country should we be financing billions of pounds worth of oil and gas projects across the world?"
Boris Johnson responded to this with the statement: "I do think it is important that the UK continues to campaign against hydrocarbon emissions of all kinds, around the world."
The Prime Minister reinforced his point by announcing that the party have banned supporting the extraction of coal around the world and have been slowly falling away from using coal to supply power. Data provided by the National Statistics show that Since September 2019 coal has only provided 1.0% of the energy in the UK compared to 2.5% of the year prior.
There was also a concern in Parliament that the goal for Net Zero would not be met by the arranged the year of 2050 as Jeremy Corbyn stated that the Government is on track to meet the Net Zero by 2099.
Boris Johnson argued this point by saying: "The country has doubled its spending to tackle climate change internationally by £11.6 billion...[a conservative party has also] reduced CO2 emissions by 42% on 1990 Levels"
Though Caroline Lucas; a Green party politician, Said: "we won't be taken seriously on climate leadership as long as we are [investing] taxpayers' money into projects overseas that are emitting huge amounts of Carbon."
This can be seen from the week prior as The UK-Africa Investment Summit announced that £2 billion will be invested into more oil and gas. Boris Johnson responded to this explains that no more money will go into Coal but avoided answering concerns on other fossil fuels.