{"id":335102,"date":"2024-06-28T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335102"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T08:52:11","slug":"british-labour-considers-office-for-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335102","title":{"rendered":"British Labour Considers \u201cOffice for Net Zero\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sir Keir Starmer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never has a proposed Whitehall taskforce been so aptly named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Election 2024: Labour to create new office for net zero in government to push green transition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources say the new office would demonstrate commitment to achieving clean power by 2030 and provide a key dividing line with the Tories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexandra Rogers<\/a><\/strong>
Political reporter @Journoamrogers<\/a>
Tuesday 25 June 2024 03:04, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labour will ramp up its efforts to achieve net zero with a dedicated team of officials working to eliminate carbon emissions if it wins the election, Sky News understands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The party\u2019s transition team, led by Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s chief of staff Sue Gray<\/a><\/strong>, is considering setting up an Office for Net Zero if it forms the next government, sources said, with a focus on delivering its aim for clean power as laid out in its manifesto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not yet clear whether the new office would sit within the Cabinet Office \u2013 one of the key control centres in government alongside Number 10 and the Treasury \u2013 or under the the existing Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (Desnez).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Labour have announced moves to accelerate the move to net zero, including doubling onshore wind, tripling solar power and quadrupling offshore wind by 2030, Mr Sunak\u2019s approach has been more cautious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/election-2024-labour-to-create-new-office-for-net-zero-in-government-to-push-green-transition-13156557<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If only the Net Zero push had been around back when the BBC used to make comedy programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the famous BBC Sitcom \u201cYes Minister\u201d<\/a>, MP Jim Hacker<\/a> and his adversary Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby<\/a> ran the \u201cDepartment of Administrative Affairs\u201d, a fictional Whitehall ministry which had poorly defined responsibilities and achieved nothing significant during the entire series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But \u201cOffice for Net Zero\u201d beats \u201cDepartment of Administrative Affairs\u201d in terms of implied uselessness. I mean, there\u2019s a vague expectation the \u201cDepartment of Administrative Affairs\u201d might actually be expected to achieve something. But \u201cOffice for Net Zero\u201d \u2013 can you imagine a \u201cNet Zero\u201d progress report?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labour leader Keir Starmer\u2019s imminent administration was always destined to be a comedy special \u2013 radical green politicians using Karl Marx as their guide to fixing the economic failures of Britain\u2019s energy market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t lose any important peripheral appendages to frostbite kind of humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But please keep the \u201cOffice for Net Zero\u201d title for the crack team of bureaucrats who will lead the charge to make it all right. Writing future WUWT articles about the unfolding energy disaster at the \u201cOffice for Net Zero\u201d would just be the cherry on the cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If only the Net Zero push had been around back when the BBC used to make comedy programmes.<\/p>\n

In the famous BBC Sitcom \u201cYes Minister\u201d, MP Jim Hacker and his adversary Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby ran the \u201cDepartment of Administrative Affairs\u201d, a fictional Whitehall ministry which had poorly defined responsibilities and achieved nothing significant during the entire series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":335104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818389,691829454,691820837,691818154],"class_list":["post-335102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-british-labour","tag-green-transition","tag-net-zero","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0-Sir-Keir-Starmer.jpeg?fit=1160%2C773&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1paS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":335832,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335832","url_meta":{"origin":335102,"position":0},"title":"When Is a Mandate Not a\u00a0Mandate?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/07\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ll keep this short, as plenty of people have had their say in the media already about the mismatch between the votes cast (or not cast) in the recent UK general election and the numbers of seats obtained by the various political parties that stood in it.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":335120,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335120","url_meta":{"origin":335102,"position":1},"title":"True cost of Labour\u2019s net zero target revealed in audio\u00a0leak","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/28\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Reaching Labour\u2019s target for decarbonising the economy will cost \u201chundreds of billions\u201d of pounds, a shadow minister has disclosed in a recording obtained by The Telegraph. 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