NGOs call for massive increase in UK funding to tackle climate crisis

Britain’s biggest environmental groups have written to Chancellor Sajid Javid on Monday to request that the £17.0bn budgeted for the fight against climate change over the next three years be more than doubled to £42.0bn.

The catastrophic ecological breakdown that Society risks if the fights fails would result in far greater costs, they argued.

Among the groups who penned the letter spelling out their demands were Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth together with other leading organisations including Oxfam and Christian Aid.

“Your department holds the key to ending the UK’s contribution to climate change and reversing nature’s retreat, while also setting off a positive economic transformation,” the letter read.

Among the priorities were an £11.6bn expansion in transport spending to remove heavily-polluting vehicles, spending of £2.6bn per year on rewilding projects and other land management schemes, investment in environmental sustainability for buildings, and aid for the communities disrupted by the transition to a low-carbon economy.