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A senior backbench MP has said he is “disturbed” that the Cabinet’s Climate Action Strategy committee has only met once since it was set up nine months ago. Alok Sharma, president of the COP26 summit, responded to Bernard Jenkin's criticisms by insisting that there are plenty of opportunities to input views across government. He also rejected the suggestion that the Treasury is not fully behind COP26.
The government should set a target for one-third of all new onshore renewables to be in community ownership, the IPPR thinktank has urged.
The UK should think about how it can reach net-zero emissions eight years ahead of its existing 2050 target in order to secure competitive advantage, the government’s climate change champion has urged.
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has given a withering assessment of the government’s preparations for decarbonisation, saying there is “no coordinated plan with clear milestones towards achieving the target” of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Rishi Sunak has allocated around £100 million of new cash for testbed energy projects in a Budget that has otherwise been branded a “missed opportunity” to take forward the Prime Minister’s green recovery plan.