[markburns]

Not read past the paywall. Could anyone let me know if this statement is clarified?

> no politicians likely to trumpet it

Irrespective of whether or not it's outsourcing to China and so not quite the truth, I can't see why politicians wouldn't lay claim to it. Isn't it their modus operandi to find positive news they could attribute to their own efforts?

[OscarCunningham]

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).

[ZeroGravitas]

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.

[93po]

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

https://archive.is/AHFlh

[midasuni]

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)