The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has been criticised by Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson over his failure to attend the UN’s New York Climate Summit.
Photograph of the New York skyline courtesy of William Warby.
The Mayor of London has been criticized by London Assembly Member Darren Johnson for not joining other Mayor’s of world cities and participating in the UN’s New York Climate Summit starting on Tuesday 23nd September. This follows a recent London Assembly report which gave Boris Johnson a score of 4 out of 10 for this carbon reduction programmes. The conference is being held as the latest scientific predications give global economies 15 years to transform to low carbon economies, in order to have any change of avoiding the worst of irreversible climate change.
Darren Johnson said: “We are running out of time to avert a climate catastrophe and the Mayor of London should be at the forefront, advocating and delivering carbon reduction programmes on the scale needed, as well as zero carbon energy generating technologies like solar energy”.
“Instead, Boris Johnson criticises wind farms, ignores the scientific consensus on global warming and promotes climate sceptic views. His backing of aviation expansion and fracking can only lead to one thing and that is the acceleration of global warming.
For London this means far more severe weather events such as floods, droughts and killer heatwaves and an unstable global economy”.