net zero

​An update to the Clean Growth Strategy outlining policy for net zero is needed, the Aldersgate Group has said.

SSE’s chief executive has written to the country’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson, stressing the need for him to ramp up the UK’s renewables ambition.

​The UK will need 20 million ‘mini power stations’ to reach its net zero energy goals, with the need to create a policy framework for technologies like solar PV and energy storage an immediate priority, a group convened in parliament this week heard.

Net zero will require ‘immediate’ action across all policy areas and technologies, according to National Grid ESO’s latest forecasts.

Current policy is insufficient for previous emissions targets and must be ramped up if net zero is to be reached, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said.

Local energy generation and flexibility are essential to reaching net zero, new analysis from the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) has argued.

Calculations made by HM Treasury of the cost of net zero have been labelled “slightly disturbing” by former leader of the Labour Party and co-chair of IPPR’s Environmental Justice Commission, Ed Miliband.

Rachel Reeves, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy select committee, has written to chancellor Philip Hammond requesting details behind the Treasury’s net zero sums.

The UK has today passed a legally binding net zero emissions target into law, becoming the world’s first major economy to do so.

A Citizens’ Assembly on climate change and achieving net zero has been announced by six of the government's select committees.