Sunak accused of sending wrong signals on climate crisis as he heads to Cop28

Charities and NGOs accuse government of changing how it calculates climate spending to claim it will exceed targets

Rishi Sunak has been accused of sending out the wrong signals on tackling the climate emergency as he heads to the Cop28 summit in Dubai after saying his revised net zero targets show he is not in hock to the ideological zealots".

The prime minister will allocate about 1.6bn of climate finance during the summit and claim that the UK will exceed its target of spending 11.6bn over the five years to 2026.