The Guardian view on Labour's green retreat: wrong, wrong, wrong | Editorial

Keir Starmer's announcement is a historic mistake on economic, political and environmental groundsOn Thursday, they finally made it official. For the first time, the EU's climate change service confirms, global warming has exceeded 1.5C above preindustrial levels across an entire year. The speed and scale of that rise represents a terrifying precedent if it is not reversed, and a shocking act of collective damage to the planet.It also casts Thursday's other grim climate announcement - Labour's long-trailed decision to retreat from its signature commitment to spend ?28bn a year equipping the economy to reach its climate targets - into even starker relief. Labour ended up choosing an embarrassing day to make its announcement. But the truth is that any day would have been a bad day for such a humiliating rowback. Continue reading...