"If push comes to shove, if things get really bad, they will be able to switch off your heating."

In the push for #NetZero, governments will be able to turn off your household appliances and even your heating when the grid is strained, argues Andrew Montford, the director of Net Zero Watch.

Will cars, air travel and reliable electricity become luxuries of the rich?

https://ept.ms/S0725AndrewMontford

Malcolm Hudson has more on the apparent softening in #RishiSunak’s stance towards #NetZero.
https://www.ntd.com/rishi-sunaks-stance-towards-net-zero_933970.html

#RishiSunak defended the decision to grant hundreds of new #oil and #gas drilling licenses in the North Sea. He said the move is ‘entirely consistent’ with the UK’s #NetZero commitments and will help ensure Britain is energy independent. Climate campaigners, however, have called the move “wrongheaded.” https://www.ntd.com/sunak-defends-new-north-sea-oil-gas-licenses_933969.html

How much will achieving #NetZero by 2050 pinch pockets? The net zero goals are touted as a way to avert the impacts of #ClimateChange by decarbonising our economy. But meeting these goals is expected to cost the world hundreds of trillions of dollars. To look at the impact on the average household, NTD spoke to the director of Net Zero Watch. https://www.ntd.com/policies-to-cost-households-100000-net-zero-watch_938378.html

A new report warns how the timeframe for #NetZero by 2050 is unrealistic and comes with an astronomical price tag.

The report’s author Gordon Hughes, a former World Bank adviser and current Professor of Economics at the University of Edinburgh, says the Net Zero economy is a wartime #economy—it would see British citizens taxed more, and spending far less. https://www.ntd.com/net-zero-by-2050-means-holidays-leisure-spending-will-have-to-go-former-world-bank-adviser_978021.html

Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho outlined two paths toward achieving #NetZero #CarbonEmissions: a centralized planning “leviathan” risking economic strain and a moderate approach to mitigate unaffordable public costs. For more insight, NTD consulted Net Zero Watch.
https://www.ntd.com/net-zero-policy-leviathan-may-crash-economy-coutinho_990400.html