May hits back at Badenoch, saying net zero by 2050 ‘challenging but achievable’

Sam Hall, director of the Conservative Environment Network, said: “We need a market-oriented plan to decarbonise while growing the economy and strengthening security.

“It is a mistake to have pre-empted the policy review by deciding that net zero by 2050 isn’t achievable.

“The target is based not on wishful thinking, but the scientific imperative of stopping the worsening impacts of climate change and preventing unaffordable costs.

“Ditching the target will undermine private enterprise and capital driving the energy transition and alienate voters worried about their children and grandchildren’s inheritance.”

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