Sam Hall, Director of the Conservative Environment Network, responded to the Climate Change Committee’s Carbon Budget 7:
“This carbon budget represents a significant shift towards a more pro-market and less prescriptive approach by the CCC. It doesn’t ask consumers to give up life’s creature comforts, lets private finance take the lead, and emphasises innovation and cheap energy. It shows that net zero can in the long run reduce household bills - all the while ensuring the UK plays our role in stopping climate change and protecting future generations - but only if we get electricity costs down.
“But Labour’s energy policies leave little chance of achieving the CCC’s vision. The government’s statist approach will only make electricity more expensive by squeezing out competition and paying whatever it takes to hit their arbitrary 2030 clean power target. It risks exacerbating our nation's woes, holding back our nation and net zero.
“The Conservatives should be bold in calling the government’s inaction on electricity costs and champion an alternative route to net zero that unleashes the market.”
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