UK renewables cuts 'risk slowing shift to clean energy'

Push for nuclear and gas over renewables could be more costly in the long term, warns UN's environment chief

The UK government risks slowing the shift to clean energy sources by cutting support for renewable energy and strongly backing gas as a transitional fuel, according to the UN's environment chief.

Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told the Guardian that he thought the UK's push for nuclear and gas over renewables could be more costly in the long term.