One campaign group leader said she sees "little to no benefit for UK energy customers or taxpayers", and that "the only winners are the oil firm behind the project”.
“What people will judge us on, as they will also judge other governments on, is delivery," cabinet minister Alok Sharma has said.
The Labour MP told Unbreak the Planet that a Green New Deal must "tackle inequality of power, wealth and democracy".
The European Commission will also take steps to protect European soils through measures prevented by the UK when it was part of the bloc.
The MP's constituency sits next to some of the most at-risk flood areas in Britain.
Prime minister Boris Johnson's handling of the UK's own affairs may have also weakened Britain's leadership by example.
"At the moment we’ve got a Prime Minister who says do as I say, not as I do – and I think that sends the wrong message out," Angela Rayner has said.
“We need to start to recognise that limited access to the right labour markets could compromise our ability to move at the pace at which we need to tackle climate change," Scotland's leading climate group said.
Labour said that Johnson's government was "swimming in oil and gas".