South Down MP Margaret Ritchie said support is urgently needed for carbon reductions, particularly in rural and low income communities.
She said: "We greatly welcome the commitments that the UK and other nations made in December through the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, but the Prime Minister's words must be met with action and commitment from the Treasury. While David Cameron may say all the rights things on climate change, the cuts to support for solar power and the scrapping of a major carbon capture and storage in November paint a very different picture.
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"The Government still claims that the UK is on track to meet its carbon budgets, yet the reality is their assessment pre-dates the Treasury's cuts to DECC's budget and does not reflect the damage that has been done to low-carbon industries since the last year's general election."
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