Ulster Unionists call for Stormont's climate goals to be revised - rejecting DUP plan to 'abandon' policy

Ulster Unionists call for Stormont's climate goals to be revised - rejecting DUP plan to 'abandon' policy

Northern Ireland’s climate change targets should be revised rather than abandoned – and a DUP call for the scrapping of a Stormont’s action plan should be rejected, the UUP’s environment spokesperson has said.

Revise, don’t retreat - Butler calls for realism on climate targets

Ulster Unionist Agriculture Spokesperson Robbie Butler MLA has urged a pragmatic and balanced approach, warning against political gestures that abandon ambition of climate change rather than reshape it following the DUP's motion to the Assembly calling for the full withdrawal of the current draft Climate Action Plan 2023-2027.