Cutting carbon emissions means replacing the heating systems in homes, transforming transport and greening steel production. All of these will take time, but the UK prime minister has instead chosen to delay the transition
The UK’s shift to electric vehicles may be slowed by a delayed ban on new fossil fuel onesUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed leaked reports that he will weaken some of the country’s key plans for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
Arguing that the UK has “massively over-delivered” on its carbon targets, Sunak called for a “more pragmatic, proportionate and realistic approach to reaching net zero”. “We’ve stumbled into a consensus about the future of our country that no one seems to be happy with,” he said at a press conference on 20 September., the phase-out of gas boilers from 2035 and a requirement for new homes that can’t be connected to the gas grid to install non-fossil fuel heating from 2026.
These plans will now be delayed and weakened, Sunak announced. “It should be you, the consumer, that makes that choice, not government forcing you to do it,” he said. Sunak appears to have taken issue with the way climate plans have been made in the UK since 2008, when the Climate Change Act committed the country to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent relative to 1990.
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