LONDON — The U.K. should follow Donald Trump’s example and quit the United Nations treaty that underpins global action to combat climate change, the deputy leader of Reform UK said.
Richard Tice, energy spokesperson for Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party, said the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and its linked climate science body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were “failing British voters.”
Asked if the U.K. should follow the U.S. — which announced its withdrawal from the institutions, plus 64 other multilateral bodies, Wednesday — Tice told POLITICO: “Yes I do. They are deeply flawed, unaccountable and expensive institutions.”
The 1992 UNFCCC serves as the international structure for efforts by 198 countries to slow the rate of greenhouse gas emissions.
