Match Covid-19 economic stimulus with climate fight ambition, urge MPs
Influential committees call for bold investments to recover and grow in ‘cleaner and greener way’
MPs have joined growing calls from business leaders and environmentalists for the government to use its post-coronavirus economic recovery plan to accelerate investments aimed at tackling the climate crisis.
The chairs of two influential cross-party select committees have warned the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, that time is running out to “avert an even greater future global crisis caused by climate change”.