It’s not about telling people how to live their lives. I’m not interested in that’ said Keir Starmer of his new target for Britain to reduce its carbon emissions by 81 per cent on 1990 levels by 2035.

The latest data from the European Copernicus Climate Change Service project 2024 to likely end up at least 1.55C hotter than pre-industrial times. This would make it the first entire calendar year to breach 1.5C of warming, something countries agreed to try to avoid in the 2015 Paris agreement.

Cop29: Keir Starmer vows 'ambitious' 81 per cent cut to UK emissions but won't be ‘telling people how to live’ - PM says ‘we are not going to start dictating to people what they do’ in bid to reach to