UK could lose global climate leadership - former UK energy minister

UK could lose global climate leadership - former UK energy minister

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UK could lose global climate leadership - former UK energy minister

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could lose its spot as a leader in the global net-zero race and is lagging behind due to a lack of vision when it comes to decarbonisation, former British energy minister Chris Skidmore said on Wednesday.

"(The government is) missing a massive opportunity to be able to set out a vision ... for what the future of Britain could be," he said in an interview at  the  Reuters IMPACT conference.

"We are on this global net-zero race, we have been climate leaders in the past, we're about to lose that leadership," he said