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EP.125 The UK Government’s Net Zero Strategy: Chris Skidmore MP

Energy Unplugged by Aurora

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The Case for Net Zero Is Not Just a Religion

I hope we can pull out some of those themes and I'll come back to the state of the debate within the Conservative Party on this as well. The voters if you ask them straight up would probably say their main concerns are the cost of living or struggling public services but net zero is not an eco project it will ensure that households become warmer and richer over time. We didn't have a cost benefit analysis of net zero when we were in that rush to get net zero on the statute book, says Lord Tebbit. It's important to make sure the other taxpayer is not entirely on  net zero even if that cost is born 70% by the private sector overall. Once you make

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