UK Conservatives heading to elections with a growing green policy gap

https://www.energymonitor.ai/policy/net-zero-policy/weekly-data-uk-conservatives-heading-to-elections-with-a-growing-green-policy-gap/

There is now a 21% share of required emissions cuts in the UK’s 2028–32 carbon budget that is not covered by policy.

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Green Alliance’s Net Zero Policy Tracker analyses the gap between confirmed policy and what would be required for net zero by 2050, according to the UK’s five-yearly carbon budgets. 

At the start of 2023, there was a 13% share of required emissions cuts in the 2028–32 carbon budget that was not covered by policy. Following the government’s so-called Energy Security Day in March – which saw 2,800 pages of new energy and climate policy – the share of emissions cuts not covered by policy grew to 15%. 

Since Sunak’s latest speech in March, the gap has grown to 21%: a near-doubling of the gap that existed at the start of the year. 

“The Prime Minister delayed vital policies that would have lowered energy bills, increased UK energy security, and played a critical role in creating a green and growing economy,” said Chris Venables, Green Alliance’s deputy director of politics and partnerships, in a statement following Sunak’s speech. “This represents a deeply alarming pivot that has undermined business confidence, and put at serious risk the hard-won, cross-party and evidence-based approach we have had to actually reaching our legally binding net-zero targets.”

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https://www.energymonitor.ai/policy/net-zero-policy/weekly-data-uk-conservatives-heading-to-elections-with-a-growing-green-policy-gap/