UK Prime Minister laments loss of cross-party climate change consensus ahead of COP30

At a Q&A for students held at 10 Downing Street ahead of the COP30 climate change summit, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that British leadership on the issue has been "falling away" because of the recent decline in cross-party consensus.

Starmer said that achieving 'net zero' CO2 emissions should be seen as an opportunity for jobs rather than a burden, and that the recent hurricane in Jamaica will be "amongst the first things that leaders discuss [at COP30], because they were seeing it all the time, the impact of global change, climate change."