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The current government is very unpopular, but they won a small by-election by opposing London's ultra low emissions zone. So they're now shifting to an anti-environmental stance in the hope that will save them in the next election (they were hardly pro-environment previously).

This is probably down more to the lack of overlap between people who care about carbon accounting and those who celebrate petty jingoistic "victories" like being the first nation in the G20 to achieve collectively agreed targets.

Often there's an archive.whateverTLD link in comments, there's one here:

https://archive.is/AHFlh

This government is leaning heavily into culture wars, they are unlikely to attach themselves to something they are painting as “woke” (cleaner air in school playgrounds, lack of smog, etc)