Campaigners表示，安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）如果未能掌控一系列重要政策，将“盲目”走向气候灾难，这些政策的综合影响可能会彻底破坏实现净零排放的计划。
Andy Burnham will “sleepwalk” into climate disaster if he fails to get a grip on a series of important policies whose combined impact could scupper plans to reach net zero, campaigners have said.
关于北海钻探、希思罗机场扩建、电动汽车以及热泵补贴的重大决策正等待部长们做出决定。
Big decisions on North Sea drilling, the expansion of Heathrow airport, electric vehicles (EVs) and grants for heat pumps are awaiting decisions from ministers.
但绿色和平组织（Greenpeace）和地球之友（Friends of the Earth）在致首相的一封信中表示，这些决定应结合其累积影响来考虑，而不是由不同的政府部门分别做出。
But they should be considered in the context of their cumulative impacts rather than be taken separately by different government departments, according to Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth (FoE) in a letter to the prime minister.
信中称，综合来看，批准罗斯班克（Rosebank）油田钻探、扩建希思罗机场、淡化英国电动汽车目标以及削减热泵补贴所产生的排放，在未来25年内将达到4.02亿吨二氧化碳。
Taken together, the emissions resulting from approving drilling at the Rosebank oilfield, expanding Heathrow airport, watering down the UK’s EV targets and cutting heat pump grants would be 402m tonnes of CO2 over the next 25 years, the letter says.
这些排放量将超过106座燃煤电厂运行一年的排放量，足以阻止英国实现其碳预算和净零排放目标。
The emissions would be greater than those of 106 coal plants running for a year, more than enough to prevent the UK meeting its carbon budgets and net zero.
绿色和平组织首席科学家道格·帕尔（Doug Parr）表示：“伯纳姆政府在未来几个月面临着一系列重大决策，这些决策可能会决定其在气候问题上的政治遗产。本届政府似乎理解减少导致致命热浪和干旱的排放的紧迫性，但仍存在一个真正的风险，即他们可能会在不知不觉中逆转英国迄今为止取得的强劲进展。”
Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace, said: “The Burnham government is facing a series of big decisions over the next few months that could define its legacy on climate. This administration seems to get the urgency of cutting the emissions causing deadly heatwaves and droughts, but there’s a real risk they could still sleepwalk into reversing the strong progress the UK has made so far.”
上周，尽管有警告称该项目只会创造27个新工作岗位、无法降低生活成本且对英国税收收入贡献甚微，政府还是批准了杰克道（Jackdaw）气场的钻探。现在，北海化石燃料行业正在施压，要求为设得兰群岛以西、更具争议的罗斯班克油田开绿灯，该油田将产生更高的排放量。
Last week, the government gave the go-ahead to drill the Jackdaw gasfield, despite warnings that it would create only 27 new jobs, fail to cut the cost of living, and add little to UK tax revenues. Now, the North Sea fossil fuel industry is pressing for a green light to the more controversial Rosebank oilfield, west of Shetland, which would produce higher emissions.
汽车制造商一直在大力游说政府，要求放宽其强制令，即确保到2035年所有新售汽车和货车均为电动车。他们要求允许2030年多达一半的销量为汽油或柴油车，这将远低于目前到那时实现80%电动化的目标。考虑到车辆的长使用寿命，根据能源与气候情报智库（Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit）的分析，这可能产生相当于罗斯班克油田排放量约60%的未来排放量。
Car manufacturers have lobbied hard for the government to water down its mandate to ensure all new car and van sales are electric by 2035, by allowing as many as half of sales to be petrol or diesel in 2030, which would mean falling far short of the current target of 80% electric by then. Given the long life of vehicles, this could produce future emissions equal to about 60% of the emissions from Rosebank, according to analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit thinktank.
航空公司也在推动希思罗机场扩建，财政大臣约翰·希利（John Healey）强烈支持这一举措，认为这能促进经济增长。活动人士质疑这一分析，指出英国已经在着手盖特威克机场的扩建。
Airlines are also pressing for an expansion of Heathrow, which the chancellor, John Healey, strongly favours in the belief that it could increase economic growth. Campaigners challenge this analysis, arguing the UK is already embarking on airport expansion at Gatwick.
希利预计将在周三的预算案中削减锅炉升级计划，该计划为用热泵替代燃气锅炉的家庭提供补助，尽管这代表着节省燃气用量，且目前向电力供暖的转型速度缓慢。
In his budget on Wednesday, Healey is also likely to cut the boiler upgrade scheme, which provides grants to households installing heat pumps in place of gas boilers, despite the savings on gas use that it represents and the slow speed of the transition to electric heating so far.
帕尔说：“关于罗斯班克、希思罗扩建、电动汽车目标或热泵资金的决定，不应匆忙通过或孤立做出——部长们需要具有远见，并追踪这些决定对我们气候的累积影响。碳排放的账单可能需要一段时间才会送达，但到时候将付出惨痛代价。” 伯纳姆（Burnham）补充道，如果拒绝这些高碳计划，英国可以建设一个更清洁、更平等、更繁荣的社会。据英国工业联合会（CBI）称，可再生能源可以降低账单，特别是在油气价格飙升之际，净零经济的增长速度已快于整体经济。
Parr said: “Decisions about Rosebank, Heathrow expansion, electric vehicle targets or heat pump funding should not be rushed through or made in isolation – ministers need to be far-sighted and keep track of their cumulative impact on our climate. The carbon bill may take a while to turn up, but there’s hell to pay when it does.”If Burnham were to reject these high-carbon plans, the UK could build a cleaner, more equal and more prosperous society, added Imogen Dow, climate lead at FoE. Renewable energy could bring down bills, particularly amid soaring oil and gas prices, and the net zero economy has grown faster than the rest of the economy, according to the CBI.
唐恩说：“实现我们的气候目标不仅是地球的胜利——它还将增强经济、降低家庭账单、改善公共卫生，并保护我们赖以生存的家园。”
Dow said: “Delivering on our climate goals is not solely a win for the planet – it will also strengthen the economy, lower household bills, improve public health and protect the places we call home.
“在强大的既得利益集团正将世界推向气候灾难之际，像英国这样的政府坚定立场比以往任何时候都更加重要。”
“At a time when powerful vested interests are pushing the world towards climate catastrophe, it’s more important than ever that governments like the UK stand strong.”
一位政府发言人表示：“再工业化绝不意味着背弃我们的气候义务和净零目标。过去两年，清洁电力已获得1100亿英镑的已宣布投资，并通过我们创纪录的可再生能源拍卖支持了数千个就业岗位。”
A government spokesperson said: “Reindustrialisation will never mean reneging on our climate obligations and net zero. Over the past two years, clean power has secured £110bn in announced investment and supported thousands of jobs through our record renewable energy auctions.”