The government's climate plans are still ambitious and on-track, so why is Labour making so much anti-green noise? | Richard Power Sayeed

Donald Trump has paused future spending on clean energy infrastructure and he’s cancelled decarbonisation targets.

And the new European Commission has loudly promised to cut environmental “red tape” But overall, Labour has remained committed to its long-term climate goals.

Last year , the world invested almost twice as much in clean energy as it did in fossil fuels.

In 2008 , New Labour’s climate reforms succeeded because (almost) the whole of the left was on board.

It was the innovative campaigning by progressives at Friends of the Earth plus increasing economic nationalism in the global energy sector that helped push opposition leader David Cameron into supporting the idea of a climate change bill in 2006 .

Now, as in 2008 , geopolitics make his reforms an easier sell, and now, as then, he relies on his party's support.

Only this time, it is also doing it under cover of an anti-green pantomime.