Rishi Sunak’s plans to backtrack on green policies will put the UK’s 2050 net zero target in jeopardy, derailing Britain’s role as a global climate leader.
While the prime minister says he is committed to hitting the legally binding net zero target, rolling back a 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars and watering down policies to get natural gas out of home heating, would leave him with very few options.
According to Climate Action Tracker, a non-profit that assesses global climate policies, the UK is one of a handful of countries that is actually close to reaching a 1.5C pathway, although it isn’t there yet. Rolling back existing policies would push it further away from achieving that goal. Still, the UK isn’t the only major economy where politicians have looked at scaling back ambitious targets. Germany’s coalition, which includes the Green party, has watered down policies on home heating in the face of protests. Dutch politics has been rocked by opposition to plans to scale back emissions from farming. And Sweden, another global leader on climate policy, is also off track on meeting its long-term net zero target.
The CCC said emissions cuts need to roughly quadruple in the next seven years in order to meet 2030 climate goals outside of the power industry. Within electricity supply, the UK’s development of wind farms isn’t moving fast enough and the growth of solar facilities is “significantly off track”.
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