Government admits climate consensus is breaking down

Net Zero Watch says failure to prepare official cost estimate is culpable

Net Zero Watch has welcomed the admission by the Government that the political consensus over decarbonisation is breaking down. Speaking in the House of Lords yesterday, the Minister of State, Lord Hunt, said:

I sense, as the noble Lord, Lord Frost, suggested, that some of the political consensus on net zero may be breaking down.”

Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford said:

The cross-party enthusiasm for Net Zero has been, and is still, immensely damaging, allowing crazy policies to go almost unscrutinised. If the days of opposition parties refusing to oppose are coming to an end, taxpayers and consumers should be grateful.”

And Net Zero Watch has called for the government to publish a full, transparent estimate of the costs of decarbonising the economy. Mr Montford said:

It is entirely culpable that after twenty years we still have no official estimate of the cost of Net Zero. Mr Miliband needs to rectify that as a matter of urgency.”