Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation
The conservatives promised England’s turning point to scrape the climate change legislation and replace it with a “cheap and reliable” energy strategy.
The 2008 Climate Change Law, which sets targets to laws the emissions, was introduced by the last workers’ government and strengthened under the Toray PM Theresa May.
TORY leader Kemi Badenoch said that his party “wanted to leave a cleaner environment for our children”, but “the laws of the workers tied us to the bureaucracy, loaded us with costs and did nothing to reduce global emissions.”
Environmental groups said that the movement would be a “national self -harm” action, while the worker would be “an economic disaster and a complete betrayal of future generations”.
The 2008 law, which was adopted when the current energy secretary played the same role in the Gordon Brown government of Ed Miliband, decided to reduce England by 80% of carbon emissions by 2050.
In 2019, under the Premiership in May, this legally binding target was updated to reach the net zero by 2050 – that is, UK should cut carbon emissions until it was removed as much as it produces.
At that time, the legislation passed through Parliament with the support of all the big parties.
However, the political consensus on Net Zero has been disintegrated since then.
Badenoch has previously been “impossible” for the meeting of the Net zero target until 2050 and Oil and gas extraction from the North Sea “Maximer”.
Reform UK also said that if he wins the next election, he will scrape the net zero target.The accusation of higher energy bills and industrialization policy in the UK.
The UK was the first country to establish a long -term legally binding framework to reduce carbon emissions, and since the law has been adopted, many countries have brought similar legislation.
However, Tories said that the ministers of the action force forced to decide to meet the arbitrary climate targets even if they do the British people poor, even if they destroy their jobs and weaken our economy. “
Badenoch said: “We want to leave a cleaner environment for our children, but not by making the country by the bank.
“Climate change is real. But the laws of labor tied us to the bureaucracy, loaded us at costs, and did nothing to reduce global emissions. Previous conservative governments tried to employ the Climate Laws of the Labor Party.
“Under my leadership, we will scrape these unsuccessful goals.
But Miliband said: “If it is applied, this desperate policy of Kemi Badenoch will be an economic disaster and a complete betrayal of future generations.
“Conservatives have now provided an investment of tens of billions of pounds since it was accepted by a workers’ government with conservative support 17 years ago, which will scrape a framework where enterprises are campaigning in the first place.”
The liberal democrats also criticized the announcement.
The party’s energy security and net zero spokesman Pippa Heylings said: “The truth is that investing in renewable energies will protect the greatest economic growth opportunity and planet for future generations.”
In the meantime, Richard Benwell, General Manager of the Wildlife and Rural Connection Coalition of Environmental Groups, said, “The real way of permanent security is not that it does not burn more fossil fuel, but the married clean power.
“Without binding the climate law, the ministers will be free in trade – and the poorest communities that will pay this nature and the price.”
