Credibility in question as climate plan wilts on the vine

Be honest, we’ve all done it at least once. After a long and stressful time working through the dark days of winter, the summer arrives and you become fixated on spending a week turning an unflattering shade of red on some far-flung beach, before a last-minute booking to catch a flight to the sun.

When you return home, you find all your plants have died a grizzly, water-deprived death while you have been gone — victims of your amateurish green-fingered ways.