George Osborne ‘has undermined UK role in climate talks’
by Robin McKie Science editor from on (#W1SS)
Ending support for carbon-capture technology is 'betrayal' says expert Stuart Haszeldine
Britain will enter the Paris climate change talks this week with its credentials as a responsible, low-emission power generator in tatters. That is the stark conclusion of one of the country's leading energy experts, Professor Stuart Haszeldine of Edinburgh University.
Haszeldine believes George Osborne's last-minute decision to axe the government's 1bn support for a scheme to capture and bury carbon dioxide emissions from power stations was a final act that utterly undermined British negotiators' status in Paris.
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