Opinion: It won’t be easy to satisfy Greta Thunberg on climate change
ByBrian Wilson, former UK Energy Minister
Emergencies are not to be taken lightly so I am waiting with interest to find what the UK Parliament and Scottish Government announcements of a climate change emergency add up to.
The issues relating to climate change are not new so it is reasonable to expect that any actions to be taken post-emergency were also on the agenda pre-emergency. Apart from the announcements, I’m not sure what has changed.
The mood music was created by the series of school strikes and the visit by Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg. The devil will be in the implementation and it will not be easy to deliver enough to satisfy Greta.