War on climate change

The UK government should attack climate change as if it were a war, according to a new report from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

The professional body has today called for the government to deploy a swift offensive on climate change with an arsenal of new engineering projects aimed at generating cleaner energy, capturing and sequestering carbon-dioxide emissions and controlling the effects of environmental disasters on communities.

‘The climate is changing much faster than what was previously expected,’ said Tim Fox, head of environment and climate at the IMechE.

‘The institute believes it is time to “go to war” on climate change.’

Fox added that the UK’s current goals for decarbonisation laid out in the Climate Change Act last year are impossible to meet with the government’s plan of action.