Grant Shapps, the top U.K. climate envoy, said Monday during a U.S.-U.K. climate summit that it would be 'idiotic' to transition too quickly to green energy.
on Monday morning. They were made in response to Shell CEO Wael Sawan stating last week that the global energy system continues to"desperately need oil and gas" and that green energy development wasn't advanced enough to allow nations to abandon fossil fuels.
"There always has to be a transition … but it doesn't just happen overnight, in fact, it's idiotic to suggest you can," Shapps said, per the BBC."If you tried to, you simply impoverish people and tell people they can no longer drive and they can no longer heat their homes."
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