Rishi Sunak will not attend the Cop27 climate summit, Downing Street has said, despite the new British prime minister having promised this week to prioritise the environment. 🤡 His predecessor, Liz Truss, had reportedly planned to go to at least one day of the summit, but Sunak’s spokesperson said he had “other pressing domestic commitments”. Some people had been hoping Sunak would take the climate crisis more seriously than Truss and were even optimistic after he announced he would uphold the ban on fracking, a commitment made in the 2019 Tory manifesto. The spokesperson said the autumn budget was among Sunak’s top priorities, but the government remained “committed to net zero and to leading international and domestic action to tackle climate change”. The wrong message to send to a burning world and after Britain has dealt with one of the warmest summers in its history. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/rishi-sunak-will-not-attend-cop27-climate-summit