ED Miliband’s new top advisor wants Brits to “eat less red meat” and for kids to “turn down the heating”, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.
Professor Emily Shuckburgh was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of last month.
Miliband’s new top aide Emily ShuckburghCredit: AP:Associated Press
Energy Security Ed MilibandCredit: Getty
Andrew Bowie said it was “tofu-fuelled madness”Credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images
She has spent years calling for tougher green rules and arguing that achieving Net Zero will require “changes to almost all areas of our lives”.
Her positions appear to go much further than Sir who says the green transition is not about “telling people how to live their lives”.
In a 2020 interview with the Technical University Berlin, she said: “The challenge is to reduce greenhouse emissions to as near to zero as possible.
“This involves making changes to almost all areas of our lives: and individual mobility, travel, agriculture, waste production and disposal.”
And while the PM has declared that “ and gas will be with us for many decades to come”, the new top aide commented: “the era of fuels is over”.
In 2016 she told school children to “eat less meat” because of “all the transportation associated in its production”.
And to “turn down your heating” and “please employ the democratic process and use your vote”.
Hinting at support for the idea of climate aid, Shuckburgh also said “so much more” is needed to support the “most vulnerable”.
Last year she organised and co-signed a letter demanding more funds for struggling countries.
Tory Shadow Energy Minister Andrew Bowie warned that “while families are choosing between heating and eating”, Mr Miliband’s new eco-guru “is lecturing children about tofu-fuelled madness”.
He added: “If Labour put half as much effort into cutting as they do into finger-wagging, we’d all be better off.”
It comes as it was revealed the has spent at least £1.4bn of taxpayers’ on net zero schemes like electric ambulances without reducing its carbon footprint at all.
Mr Miliband – who has been at the Cop30 climate summit in – made a bonkers claim that tackling climate will beat the rise of hard-right populism.
A DESNZ spokesperson said: “We will reach our climate targets in a way that treads lightly on people’s lives – not by telling them how to live or behave.
“This government is pursuing a climate and clean energy policy that lowers bills, delivers energy security and creates , with warmer , cleaner air and brighter future for our children and grandchildren.”
Sources said her comments did not suggest anyone should be forced to change their lifestyle and they predated her work in the government.
In 2016 the professor told school children to “eat less meat”Credit: Getty 
