A friend comments:
I feel torn on this. To be genuinely zero carbon by 2030 is not possible unless you stopped all outbound and inbound flights and had a scrappage scheme for all 37milion petrol / diesel vehicles on our roads- the costs of which would be astronomical.
So this must involve a vast array of offsets. It's a welcome level of ambition of course but let's hear the detail
What's striking to me is how there's a new industrial vision at the heart of it. Using the growth of the green sector to allay unemployement, drive regeneration etc.
I feel torn on this. To be genuinely zero carbon by 2030 is not possible unless you stopped all outbound and inbound flights and had a scrappage scheme for all 37milion petrol / diesel vehicles on our roads- the costs of which would be astronomical.
So this must involve a vast array of offsets. It's a welcome level of ambition of course but let's hear the detail
What's striking to me is how there's a new industrial vision at the heart of it. Using the growth of the green sector to allay unemployement, drive regeneration etc.