Show Notes
The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has attacked Labour’s manifesto commitment to end new oil and gas licences as “reckless” and "catastrophic" in the middle of the global energy crisis.
But with only 10% of the North Sea’s original reserves estimated to still be available for extraction, can it really help steer the country towards a more energy secure future?
On this week’s ECO Chamber, special guest Ed Matthew, the UK director of the climate change think tank E3G joins ENDS Report’s deputy editor Tess Colley and ENDS’ senior reporter Shosha Adier, to unpick the Conservative’s rhetoric.
Meanwhile, a group of MPs has urged DEFRA to consider a merger of England’s watchdogs for the environment: the Environment Agency and Natural England.
PLUS: Scotland’s nature watchdog has a new plan and a new cash injection; DEFRA’s new Nature Investment Standard and a multi-million pound waste plastic packaging scandal busted.
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