Sunak Blinks

From Climate Scepticism

BY JIT

Has he seen the light?

Late yesterday someone leaked Rishi Sunak’s plans to water down the UK’s Net Zero measures to the BBC. He was not, everyone was at pains to note, discarding the overall 2050 target. The leaked changes were all about softening and delaying the pain.

Here is the BBC’s list of the eight rumoured policy changes:

1. Push back the ban on petrol cars to 2035 from 2030
2. Soften the ban on gas boilers from no new gas boilers in 2035 to 20% of new boilers still gas in 2035
3. Rescind looming energy efficiency regulations for homes
4. Push back the ban on oil boilers from 2026 to 2035
5. No new taxes to discourage flying
6. No interference in people’s diets
7. No measures to encourage carpooling
8. Not implementing a recycling strategy requiring householders to operate 7 bins.

Updates will follow here when Sunak makes his speech.

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