“In what looks like the warmest year on record, George Osborne has strikingly failed to shield the UK economy from climate change and grasp the opportunities of a modern clean-tech economy.
“Some communities will be relieved to hear that flood budgets have now been allocated to projects, but the bill is set to outstrip the funding pot as temperatures continue to rise. The Government must commit to tackling the symptoms and the causes of our increased rainfall by dealing with global warming emissions. The Chancellor should have announced a nationwide programme to upgrade Britain’s draughty homes, making them fit for 21st century and creating jobs in every constituency. Instead we get a 1980s-style road building programme and subsidies/tax breaks for fossil fuel giants that will entrench the high carbon economy we should be moving away from.”
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