{"id":82625,"date":"2019-06-13T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82625"},"modified":"2019-06-13T06:33:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T10:33:46","slug":"the-bishop-of-salisbury-welcomes-the-governments-commitment-to-net-zero-emissions-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82625","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Salisbury welcomes the Government\u2019s commitment to \u201cnet zero\u201d emissions by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England\u2019s lead bishop on the environment has welcomed the news that the government has set a stricter target on climate change. The Right Reverend Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury said: \u201cThis announcement is very welcome, and the UK is setting an example by making this commitment to address the global climate emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut commitment alone is meaningless unless it is backed up by relentless action, which must remain our priority in the coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we are to achieve Net Zero the government\u2019s response to the recent recommendations from the Climate Change Committee will be crucial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/bishop-welcomes-governments-commitment-net-zero-emissions-2050\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lovely 2 meet &amp; hear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DioSalisbury?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DioSalisbury<\/a> Bishop of Salisbury Nick Holtam at Semley today. Not seen since this Confirmation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Da0NKcvmTD\">pic.twitter.com\/Da0NKcvmTD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Simon Lewis (@Lewi320) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lewi320\/status\/795245209550524416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England\u2019s lead bishop on the environment has welcomed the news that the government has set a stricter target on climate change. The Right Reverend Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury said: \u201cThis announcement is very welcome, and the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82625\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,635,683,140,199,151,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ecology","category-energy-natural-resources","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82635,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82625\/revisions\/82635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}