Kemi Badenoch: Net Zero by 2050 is “impossible”

But Sam Hall, Director of the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), called it “a mistake for Kemi Badenoch to have jumped the gun and decided net zero isn’t possible by 2050”.

He said: “This undermines the significant environmental legacy of successive Conservative governments who provided the outline of a credible plan for tackling climate change.

“The important question now is how to build out this plan in a way that supports growth, strengthens security, and follows conservative, free market principles.”

And he stressed: “However, the net zero target is driven not by optimism but by scientific reality; without it climate change impacts and costs will continue to worsen.

“Abandon the science and voters will start to doubt the Conservative Party’s seriousness on the clean energy transition, damaging both growth and the fight against climate change.”

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