Calls for shift from fossil fuels as UN prepares to release new climate report
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The latest report from UN science body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sets out solutions needed to curb global warming, including cutting fossil fuel emissions with technology such as renewables. Our fossil fuel dependence is funding Putin's war and soaring gas prices are hurting millions of households Charlie Kronick, Greenpeace UK Each climate report from the IPCC is published after its summary is approved line by line in a process involving representatives of 195 governments and scientists – with the latest report’s approval meeting running well past its Friday scheduled finish time. Ahead of the latest report’s publication, Greenpeace UK senior climate adviser Charlie Kronick said: “Our fossil fuel dependence is funding Putin’s war and soaring gas prices are hurting millions of households. “We already have good reasons to move away from oil and gas and invest in insulation and heat pumps to cut energy wastage from our homes.” “But on Monday, the world’s leading climate scientists will remind us of the other major reason we must do so: to stop the climate disaster threatening everything we hold dear.” Sam Hall, director of the Conservative Environment Network, which includes dozens of Tory MPs, said: “The case for reducing fossil fuel consumption across the economy has only got stronger.
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