Top British climate official says moving too quickly to green energy will ‘simply impoverish people’

ByThomas Catenacci| Fox News

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British Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps blasted calls Monday for a rapid shift from fossil fuels during meetings withU.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.

Shapps’ remarks came during a U.S.-U.K. climate summit in which both President Biden andKing Charles III participatedon 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…