Conservatives Victorious in the UK—But Environmental, Low-Carbon Policies Prevail Nonetheless

On top of what I wrote yesterday, here’s another reminder of what the Conservative (“Tory”) government in the UK has achieved vis-à-vis the environment. Of course, we can only speculate as to how progressive the Labor Party or the Liberal Democrats would have been, but the point is that the term “conservative” means something quite different in the UK than it does in the US.