Climate Change: Net Zero Strategy Debate
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Lord Hamilton of Epsom
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Climate Change: Net Zero Strategy
Lord Hamilton of Epsom Excerpts(1 year, 10 months ago)
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Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con)
Does my noble friend accept that the chances of reaching global net zero are almost nil as long as the Chinese and Indians go on building coal-fired power stations?
Lord Callanan (Con)
I understand the point my noble friend is making. Of course, we continue to engage with China and India about the folly of building new coal-fired power stations. Incidentally, picking up my last example, because the German Government accepted the advice of the Greens and phased out their nuclear power programme, last year 30% of German electricity was met by coal-fired generation. In the UK, it was less than 2% and next year it will be zero.