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Kerry McCarthy
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(1 year, 9 months ago)
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Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East) (Lab)
I welcome the Minister to her post. We all agree that supporting investment in new low-carbon technologies is an important part of reaching net zero—well, most of us do. In the past week, one of the candidates for Prime Minister has said that
“we need to suspend the all-consuming desire to achieve net zero by 2050.”
Another claims that it was
“wrong of us to set a target”
for net zero. The frontrunner spent two years at the Treasury blocking additional climate spend. It is all well and good for the Minister to talk about the need for investment, but how can we, and more importantly the investors out there, have any confidence that it will continue?
