Shifting heating and transport to electric devices only disguises emissions unless they are powered by a clean grid – and even if not, the extra demand on the system will require vast amounts of new cables and pylons.
Labour’s plans will make matters even worse. Blocking all new domestic oil and gas developments if they win power at the next election only plays into Vladimir Putin’s hands.
Review Net Zero interventions, cut immigration; freeze Civil Service recruitment, reduce railway subsidies – and tell the Bank of England to stop selling bonds at a loss.
Combined with windfall taxes on both fossil fuel and renewable energy generation, Britain’s business tax regime is getting less, not more, competitive.
Short-sighted overregulation and creative accounting to offshore our CO2 emissions are no way to build a prosperous, sustainable future.
There are several different revenue models, but the best avoid knee-jerk levies in favour of long-term surety.
Decarbonisation has challenges, but offers immense opportunities to revitalise our country’s industrial heartlands.
Polling by Ipsos Mori proves the Government is making progress in convincing people about its climate credentials.
Too many on the Right see it as their job to pretend that action on climate change must be watered down or opposed.
Many high-emitting nations are either avoiding COP altogether or stalling when it comes to committing to carbon targets.
The first piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.
Re-shoring energy production and re-opening quarries and mines can offer national prosperity, strategic security, and meaningful work.
Not only is it a fuel of the future, but it can help the Government achieve its levelling up agenda.
Enhancing its domestic production can help “level up” Britain and reduce the carbon footprint from imports.
The Government needs to be investing both in the next generation of nuclear power stations and developing the storage technologies needed to make renewables reliable.