John Prescott, a 'critical force' in climate policy, will be missed at Cop29

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : He was one of the first to promote home insulation: more than two decades ago he created a grant scheme to improve a home's energy efficiency and to lower fuel bills, aimed at tackling fuel poverty and the stubbornly high levels of carbon emissions from domestic properties.
49% : At the summit, he coined a phrase:"I'm walking and talking," highlighting how he used every minute in every conversation to keep negotiating until, on 11 December 1997, the senior representatives of more than 150 countries agreed binding reductions on carbon emissions.Twelve years after Kyoto, at the Copenhagen Cop summit in 2009, Prescott kept on walking and talking, no more so than during a gruelling final-night session with huge differences to close between the US and China.

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