{"id":269329,"date":"2023-07-25T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=269329"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:32:05","slug":"michael-gove-urges-caution-over-religious-crusade-on-environment-calls-for-relaxation-of-net-zero-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=269329","title":{"rendered":"Michael Gove Urges Caution Over \u201cReligious Crusade\u201d on Environment, Calls for Relaxation of Net Zero Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0RICHARD ELDRED<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Gove, the Levelling Up and Housing Secretary, has called for a more flexible approach to Net Zero measures, cautioning against treating environmental efforts as a \u201creligious crusade\u201d. In an interview with the\u00a0Telegraph<\/a><\/em>, he becomes the first of Rishi Sunak\u2019s Cabinet to openly call for a reassessment of green initiatives amid a cost of living crisis and Tory backlash over recent by-election results. Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Gove has warned against treating the environment as a \u201creligious crusade\u201d as he called for a relaxation of some\u00a0Net Zero measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with the\u00a0Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, the Levelling Up and Housing Secretary cited Dutch protests over emissions regulations, saying that the \u201cinflexible\u201d application of rules designed to reduce pollution \u201cleads to a backlash\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his own department, Mr. Gove admits the Government is \u201casking too much too quickly\u201d of landlords. They will currently be banned from renting out their homes unless they pay for green measures, such as\u00a0insulation and heat pumps<\/a>, to meet a new minimum energy efficiency threshold by 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citing existing\u00a0financial pressures on landlords<\/a>, he added: \u201cI think we should relax the pace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also warned that Natural England, the environment quango, must \u201cpause\u201d a push to block new housing near more than 330 designated areas across the country unless councillors agree to introduce green schemes such as ultra-low emission zones (Ulez) and low-traffic neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intervention comes amid a backlash among Conservative MPs over the party\u2019s\u00a0drubbing in two by-elections<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a third, Boris Johnson\u2019s former\u00a0Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat<\/a>, the party narrowly won the poll after campaigning against Sadiq Khan\u2019s Ulez expansion in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader,\u00a0issued a warning to his own party<\/a>\u00a0over its loss in Uxbridge, saying: \u201cWe are doing something very wrong if policies put forward by the Labour Party end up on each and every Tory leaflet.\u201d He urged the London Mayor to \u201creflect\u201d on the Ulez scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir Iain Duncan Smith has become the latest MP to call for a rethink of Net Zero in light of the by-election results.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing in the\u00a0Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, the former Tory leader said voters are angry that the target of reducing net greenhouse emissions to zero by 2050 has led to \u201carbitrary and very costly\u201d deadlines, such as the 2030 ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of\u00a0the petrol car ban<\/a>, Mr. Gove said he cannot say \u201cwhether or not that is a perfectly calibrated target\u201d, even though \u201cI\u2019m sure it\u2019s achievable\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Gove becomes the first of Rishi Sunak\u2019s Cabinet ministers to publicly call for a relaxation of some measures, while warning about the consequences of pressing ahead with unpopular schemes during a cost of living crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His intervention is particularly significant because, as environment secretary under Theresa May, he was a champion of the original move to put the overall 2050 deadline into law. He did not question the deadline itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Worth\u00a0reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Gove, the Levelling Up and Housing Secretary, has called for a more flexible approach to Net Zero measures, cautioning against treating environmental efforts as a \u201creligious crusade\u201d. 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