{"id":46191,"date":"2024-01-11T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=46191"},"modified":"2024-01-11T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T03:48:11","slug":"uks-top-government-climate-change-adviser-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=46191","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s top government climate change adviser steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stark, who took up the role of chief executive at the independent Climate Change Committee in 2018, has been critical of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak&#8217;s environmental policies, saying they contradict Britain&#8217;s commitment to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a privilege to lead the Climate Change Committee team over such an important period,&#8221; he said in a statement that did not specify the reasons for his departure.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Stark described the UK&#8217;s goal of achieving its legally binding emissions targets as &#8220;wishful thinking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This followed Sunak&#8217;s decisions to push back or slash several measures, including postponing a plan to bar the sale of petrol and diesel cars by five years.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists and net zero proponents, including within Sunak&#8217;s own party, heavily criticised the moves.<\/p>\n<p>Stark&#8217;s resignation comes after Conservative MP and former energy minister Chris Skidmore announced his departure last week over opposition to the development of oil and gas fields in the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stark, who took up the role of chief executive at the independent Climate Change Committee in 2018, has been critical of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak&#8217;s environmental policies, saying they contradict Britain&#8217;s commitment to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a privilege to lead the Climate Change Committee team over such an important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-46191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-uks-top-government-climate-change-adviser-steps-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}