'Net zero isn't woke, it's a serious thing,' says outgoing head of UK climate watchdog

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Chris Stark says the UK remains at the forefront in terms of decarbonising and 'it's weird to me that we wouldn't want to celebrate that'.

The outgoing chief executive of the UK's climate committee is warning the continued politicisation of net zero will end up hurting the economy, but so will unrealistic policies to achieve it. When Chris Stark took over at the Committee on Climate Change , 'net zero' was the science-based goal towards which the UK's climate change policies had to be focused, he said. 'Net zero is now a concept that you can attack as a slogan,' he told Sky News.

' Mr Stark pointed to the rapid shift in the US toward low carbon energy under the Inflation Reduction Act, and the electrification of cars in countries including China. Economic advantages that the UK has a headstart in, but risks losing if it continues to focus on the costs of decarbonisation.

 

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