Rachel Reeves was accused by environmental experts of putting the exhibition through high carbon projects, including Expanding Heathrow Airport.
The advisor made airports the main focus of its growth plan, although it was previously promised to be The first green advisor After glorifying the benefits of green growth.
Environmental leaders asked her to adhere to green growth, such as the renewed economy and green public transport, instead of expanded flying and new roads.
“The new corridors are wrong, we do not need them. This is the old economy, it has grown 0.1 % last year while the green grew 9 %. This is where the biggest chance of growth is, Sustainable in all senses. This is the correct type of growth.
Reeves is committed to the railway project, and promised to create what she described as “Silicon Valley in Europe” Between Oxford and Cambridge, support for railways between the two cities of the university.
“The consultant is right to focus on economic renewal, but we cannot get growth at any cost. The economic situation of major airports and new roads is very questionable, and it is clear that moving forward in these climatic goals In the United Kingdom. Rachel Reeves He realizes that the low carbon economy provides an “industrial opportunity in the twenty -first century”; We must understand this instead of chasing highly dangerous projects. “
Dr. Doug Bar, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, suggested that other growth enhance measures that the advisor can adopt instead: “It is not a growth approach” at any price. ”We will reach a better economic future. Instead of capturing any old pollution project from the disposal pile, it is necessary The consultant should focus on industries that can attract investment and achieve broader economic and social benefits.
“This includes the upgrade of the energy, railway and housing network with the cultivation of the Renewable Energy Sources Revolution and the leadership of innovation in green steel, electric cars and batteries.”
Reeves said that the airport will not go ahead without achieving the climate goals: “We will then fully evaluate the airport’s national policy. The delivery of a third runway will ensure our legal, environmental and climatic goals.
However, the Climate Change Committee, which is an independent monitoring, is expensive to ensure that the UK meets its purely purposeful goal by law by 2050, in the sixth carbon budget that there can be no new expansion at the airport unless there are major cuts in the carbon intensity in regions Other economics such as land transport and agriculture. Otherwise, emissions go beyond what is required to preserve the UK within its carbon goals.
The seventh carbon budget will be published next month, and some said that the decisions related to the airport expansion should have been waiting until it was issued.
On Tuesday in Parliament, Mike Perry, Mike Kane, asked: “Can the minister explain why we hear late ads about multiple expansions at the airport, in the previous month, new advice is delivered from the Climate Change Committee? It was not possible to be The committee is more evident in previous reports that it is without a framework to manage aviation request, we should not expand airports. “
Search from New Economics Corporation It is suggested that airport expansion will actually cancel carbon saving to the government’s clean energy plan, and Backbench’s business deputies complained that new runways will bring air pollution and noise to its components.
“The purification of the road for the new corridors is economically faithful and determines our climate in the course of a collision decline. The counselor wants to enhance growth, but the new corridors will not enhance our economy. The major airports will only benefit a small set of flyers Repeated, with the deterioration of the massive tourism deficit in the United Kingdom.
“There is no struggle between the safe climate and the strong economy. The advisor must rethink these dangerous plans and self -defeat, and instead investment in the daily communication provided by buses and reliable and reliable trains.”
Other plans set by Reeves in her speech include the environmental agency objections to build 4,500 new homes in addition to schools and entertainment facilities around Cambridge, and nine new tanks, including the new Fens tank that serves Cambridge, and the Abenjdoun tank near Oxford, and improve the A428 to reduce the flight times between Milton Keynes and Cambridge.
It also pledged to reduce the organization to build infrastructure projects, but experts criticized this. “Not every organization is hostile to growth. The UK means gaining more maintaining our leadership situation and strengthening it in sustainability, especially at a moment when other major major economies that risk green investment risk from During the reference to the slopes of climate aspirations.
