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Ministers are pledging to build the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector as they detail £1 billion of spending to reduce emissions from businesses, hospitals and schools.
Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is to publish the Government’s Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy on Wednesday as part of plans to reverse the climate crisis.
It was billed as a major blueprint to help reach the target of reaching net zero by 2050 that will also create 80,000 jobs across the UK over the next three decades.
But environmentalists accused the Government of giving “handouts for the fossil fuel industry”, and Labour said the plan “doesn’t deliver with nearly the scale or ambition that’s necessary”.
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
PM S PLAN: Boris Johnson has vowed to ban new sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2030 . He announced £2.8billion in funding as part of his ten-point green plan, including £1.3billon on the rollout of electric car charging points.
REALITY: The 2030 target is viewed by the industry as incredibly ambitious with car companies facing an uphill battle to meet demand on time - and the UK charging network needing to be increased to 20 times the size it is today.
The AA says the 2030 target is incredibly ambitious , with the three major concerns around electric cars for drivers being the initial cost of the car and availability, perceived single-charge range anxiety and charging infrastructure.
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There are âvery compelling reasonsâ not to open a controversial planned coalmine in Cumbria, the business and energy secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, said on Wednesday.
The statement is the clearest indication to date of opposition to the project within the government, which has been heavily criticised for allowing the mine as the UK prepares to host a vital UN climate change summit, Cop26.
The communities secretary, Robert Jenrick, initially ruled that the mine did not conflict with national policy and was a local matter. But he reversed that decision on Thursday and ordered a public inquiry, citing rising controversy and new advice from the governmentâs official advisers, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).