There was a feeling at the Tory Conference that Rishi Sunak's watering down of net zero targets has gone down well with voters, writes Anushka Asthana.
At the Conservative Party Conference last week, the one thing that seemed to cheer the party's MPs up wasAnd if it did, that would make sense. After all, polls suggest people do tend to support the ambition to reach net zero by 2050, but are also apprehensive of measures that will inflict direct costs upon them along the way.
The CCC is not convinced, saying: "We need to go away and do the calculations but announcement is likely to take the UK further away from being able to meet it's legal commitments." "Without a corresponding increase in scheme funding, the scheme will in fact deliver fewer upgrades to properties," writes Mr Dunne. He calls on the PM to bring forward an amended Carbon Budget Delivery Plan to explain how this works.
"CCC and others have consistently said we wouldn't hit previous carbon budgets, yet we overexceeded massively," they said - pointing to 14% over-delivery for the second carbon budget and 15% for the third . Is it reasonable for the government to claim that reduced emissions during lockdowns mean we can loosen future ambitions? And if we do make the next step slightly easier, that arguably just makes the ones after that steeper and less achievable, given the final aim of zero is not going to be shifted.
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