The Climate Change Committee, the UK’s official Net Zero advisory body, has told the Government that to hit Net Zero it must impose radical lifestyle changes on the UK population. The Mail has more.
The UK’s drive for Net Zero means millions of Brits face having to install heat pumps in their homes over the next decade, according to the Government’s climate advisers.
The Climate Change Committee said there needed to be around 1.5 million heat pump installations a year in existing homes by 2035 – up from just 60,000 in 2023.
In its [advice on the UK’s] Seventh Carbon Budget, which sets a limit for UK greenhouse gas emissions between 2038 to 2042, the committee also piled pressure on Brits to buy electric cars, fly less and cut their meat and dairy consumption.
The report said, in order to meet the country’s Net Zero ambition, three-quarters of cars and vans and two-thirds of heavy good vehicles (HGVs) would need to be electric by 2040.
At the same time, Brits should be shunning their cars to cycle and walk more, while eating 25% less meat, the committee stated.
Holidaymakers were warned of more expensive flights as the committee urged the Government to commit to a 17% fall in aviation emissions compared to 2023.
Demand for air travel needed to be managed to curb emissions, with airlines taking responsibility for the costs of decarbonising through sustainable fuels, capturing carbon and electric and hybrid planes, the committee said. [All of which are, being generous, unproven technology.]
That would push up costs, for example increasing the price of a return ticket to Alicante, Spain, by £150 and a round-trip to New York could be £300 more expensive by 2050, according to the report.
Critics of Net Zero policies condemned the report as the committee’s “usual Marxist garbage” and urged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to “face down the zealots” as his Labour administration scrambles for economic growth.
The Government is committed to reaching Net Zero – which means reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 100% from 1990 levels – by 2050.
Under the committee’s “balanced pathway” for reaching this target, the report found achieving Net Zero would cost around £110 billion over the next 25 years.
At an average of £4 billion per year between 2025 and 2050, this translates to around 0.2% of GDP.
This was estimated to be front-loaded into the first half of the period, peaking at annual net cost of £33 billion in 2029.
For the period between 2025 and 2040, the committee’s figures showed the drive to Net Zero would cost an eye-watering £320 billion.
But the report added, from 2040, the annual net cost would become a saving due to falling technology costs and more efficient use of energy and resources. [Jam tomorrow.]
This would lead to a net saving of around £35 billion in 2050, it said.
In its latest advice, the committee urged the Government to commit to an 87% cut on the UK’s 1990 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
It set out what it said was a deliverable and cost-effective route to the greenhouse gas emissions cuts required from 2038 to 2042 to ensure the UK meets Net Zero by 2050.
Around a third of the emissions cuts in the period will have to come from action by households, mainly buying an electric car and a heat pump to replace an old gas boiler.
But personal choices on eating less meat and dairy, and flying, would play a “smaller, but important role”, the committee added.
To cut emissions from meat and dairy production – and free up land for tree planting to absorb carbon – Brits were told they would have to eat 25% less meat by 2040 compared with 2019 levels.
Worth reading in full.
The Climate Change Committee was created by the Climate Change Act 2008 to give the Government independent advice on how to achieve its climate goals. The Government is obliged under the act to create legally binding carbon budgets for each five year period up to 2050 to ensure it is on track. The Government doesn’t have to accept the committee’s advice – though to date it invariably has – but it does have to set a binding carbon budget (this will be the seventh, for 2038-2042) that keeps the country on target. Without repealing or amending the act the Government has very little wiggle room, so it’s worth looking out for what it actually comes up with in the next year or so. We shouldn’t expect it to be much different to what the committee has suggested, though. The point of the committee, after all, is to do the donkey work in figuring it all out. How this fits with ‘going for growth’, though, is anybody’s guess.
Stop Press: BP has announced it will cut its renewable energy investments by more than $5 billion (£3.9 billion) a year and instead focus on increasing oil and gas production, boosting its investments there by about 20% to $10 billion (£7.9 billion) a year.
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Cloud. Cuckoo. Land.
The rise of totalitarianism.
Discuss.
Green Fascism.
Of course these lunatic-luvvies would be exempted from their own recommendations….
It would be funny, if I didn’t live in the UK.
Is it bureaucratic suicide, issuing a report like that? Many people might choose to abolish the committee altogether – after all, a lot of the underlying belief could well be flawed and ineffective. It could even be contrary to our benefit overall.
Most people voted for Net Zero, though they may not have done so knowingly.
That is what the socialist Tory scum claimed when they were questioned over this, saying it was in their manifesto but then Two Tier has shown that manifestos mean little.
They were unable to vote against it until relatively recently, the uniparty saw to that.
Sort of true. There are some minor parties in some constituencies and you can always spoil your ballot paper.-
though to be honest it was only “Covid” that made me realise that voting for the least bad party is a terrible idea.
Even if the advice was accurate in what should be done to achieve Net Zero how well is the decrease in quality of life going to go if populations in the USA, India, Russia, and China are clearly following a different trajectory and living well?
There would be an exodus from the UK by anyone and everyone with the means to do it.
“How this fits with ‘going for growth’, though, is anybody’s guess.”
I don’t think any of the senior leadership think this will lead to growth and I am not sure they care. They look a lot like the last lot to me – run the country into the ground as fast as possible and bail out to sinecures in non-elected bodies here or globally, or into the private sector.
I bet if any of us quoted what the committee said to normies we know, a lot of them would think we were spouting conspiracy theories.
Like making houses from ‘Rammed Earth’.
Apart from, “I’m going for growth somewhere else other than the UK” Of course the vast majority of citizens will not be able to exercise that choice!
The CCC can Foxtrot Romeo Oscar.
Indeed….The zealots, including celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio can lead the way leading a frugal life, but we know they won’t.
No one can fly anonymously. Airlines should ban all members of the Climate Change Committee from their flights indefinitely. How could the CCC possibly object to that?
Top of the no fly list Miliband, 24000 air miles reported since election, and 2TK.
Well, our wondrous government now wants more runways at Heathrow and Gatwick, to increase air travel. Mind you, they are relying on the invention of some magic non fossil fuel stuff to make the planes fly…
You won’t get me on a battery powered plane, or a Hydrogen one or something powered with chip oil.
Marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation.
You mean that they can go stick their heads in a pig.
“free up land for tree planting to absorb carbon” When trees die they release that C02 back into the atmosphere.
And at some point we run out of available land.
And trees don’t need us to plant them.
Also Councils cutting down large trees in the dead of night knowing the locals would object. These scumbags need reminding who they work for. Leave a tree to hang the buggers from.
Lamp posts are just fine!
If temperatures do increase, then the treeline will climb higher, so more land will naturally be available for growing trees, so there is an element of self-regulation and we don’t have to bother.
They also do when people cut them down and burn them to keep warm.
I am not above hugging trees, but eating them, as there will be less productive land, is a step too far, and of course, yes they die and give up their life affirming trace gas.
Climate claptrap, craptrap and more crapcrap.
Spouted out of the mouth of the pictured CEO of the Climate Craptrap Committee, self-declared “expert in energy systems” and holder of a Classics degree from South Midland Arts College.
Same pedigree as expert in wind power, A.B. De Pfeffel. Says it all.
Useless grifter on a large salary and golden pension, no doubt.
Without the self awareness to realise her complete unsuitability for the non-job.
“Independent advice” chaired by an ex-activist with no scientific training. What could possibly go wrong?
Independent with funding from the usual places!
You are correct except he doesn’t need scientific training as this has nothing to do with science. It is all pure POITICS. The Politics of Sustainable Development where the west has to lower the living standards of its citizens because their lifestyles are “unsustainable”. Meanwhile China and India who emit 40% of the worlds CO2 emissions to our 1% are free to continue to use coal and gas and keep emitting. The USA continues to emit, but to be fair have reduced their emissions by fracking. ——For our own Political class to go on the attack against their own citizens in this way is unprecedented in the history of this country. —-VOTE REFORM for any hope of this garbage being scrapped.
The best way to stop this madness, is to stop voting for parties that support it. But as has been said before, people have not yet suffered sufficiently, to change their voting preferences.
I will keep both my petrol car, and gas boiler, for as long as feasibly possible. I will not cut back on meat and dairy consumption either. Not unless they become prohibitively expensive, or some kind of rationing system is introduced.
Yes.
Bring on the restrictions. The sooner people feel the pain the sooner they’ll put a stop to it.
When Sunak initially took office, he was critical of climate policies. It took only a single COP happening to make him toe the line. Badenoch shows a similar effect: She’s paying lip services to climate breakdown but claims to know a better way how to deal with it. This looks very much like she being careful to avoid upsetting someone in public. There are some powerful behind-the-scenes-forces at work here and with this, I don’t mean Dale “From festival petty criminal to national-scale conman!” Vince types. These are riding on someone else’s coat tails.
Are you sure that people could stop voting for parties which support Net Zero? And assuming they can, what would happen if they actually did? I don’t think a viable solution to this problem is Wait until more than dozen million people have finally ticked the right boxed when it will just vanish.
The same goes for Boris….Mark Steyn sometimes recounts chatting with Boris, and how he often called it BS. Some blame the influence of his wife (must be good in bed, with good bacon & eggs in morning) but it is probably the coat tails of the UN, WEF motley crew.
One of the more conspiracy ideas I’m entertaining is Who found the Boris-the-Jelly this woman and what did he get in return?
I think we know what he got in return… oh, you mean the other guy, not Boris
The idea that Boris changed his mind because of his wife is absurd. —–They all change their minds once they are in office. It is the UN and WEF that change their mind. If infact it ever needed changing and they were only spouting off about the GREEN CRAP to get votes
”Absurd” accurately sums up the misogynists who would stoop so low as to absolve a man ( leader of the country, no less ) of his responsibilities in order to blame a woman at any and every opportunity, such is their obsessive fixation with scapegoating us for everything that goes wrong in society. ‘Blame the wife’, FFS….Pathetic.
Pitchforks and torches are likely to be required.
Battery operated !
The “Powerful Forces” you refer to are the Big International Private Banks who virtually own the entire world including nearly all of the media, who continue to brainwash the public into thinking all of this eco socialism is required to “save the planet”——–The Political Class like Sunak Badenoch Miliband and all the rest are simply following orders from those who crat money out of nothing and then lend it governments who must tax us to kingdom come to repay the debt. —–Politicians are not in charge of anything. The Private Banks are—–As ” Mayer Amschel Rothschild said “Give me control of a nations money and I care not who makes its laws”
And then you’ll fight? I know I will.
I spend a lot of time proselytizing to patients who come to our clinic. Some may well think that I am a little obsessed!
Me too. I think some of the staff just think I am an old git with a few loose marbles but, I am trying to wake them up, and frankly I can’t help myself!
Hahaha! good for you!
REORM are the only party who claim to want to stop this stupid eco socialism
I can see The Reform Party’s majority in 2029 rising by the day with this lunacy.
I think this quite funny.
It is so obviously not going to happen.
The only question mark over when the wheels will finally fall off.
Unfortunately the damage to millions of people’s lives and livelihoods in the real economy is vast, getting faster and very far from funny.
It really is a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object.
But, back to microband, who will rid us of this turbulent priest?
Whoooo nelly! You need to be careful with that last line. The last thing we need is a martyr for the Greenies.
It would be a bit of a “oh no!!! Anyway, moving on, the Dacia Sandero… ” moment.
But far be it from me to incite assassination on lord Young’s website… just an obscure hysterical reference.
As a strategy it is obviously entirely counte-rproductive because if you start using bully boy tactics when it comes to how people live their lives then you sign your own death warrant. A lot of people need a couple of weeks abroad a few times a year. These people tell you to eat bugs and when the WEF or Bilderberg get together there are no vegetarian options on the menu. They arrive on private jets This agenda is dead. Drill baby drill. Mother nature gave us these things because she knew that 9 billion souls would incarnate. Don’t listen to these prats listen to the music of the cosmic fugue.
Who the hell do they think they are? No one tells me what to do!
Who the feck are these people to lecture the rest of us?? There is a hooray Harriet graduate in a non-science subject pontificating on subjects she knows nothing about. Knowledge of physics? Zero. Knowledge of climatology? Zero. Economics? Zero. Aviation, agronomy, animal husbandry? Zero! But she’s telling us how to live.
bring out the pitchforks!
Also on Saturday night on GB News, Ben Leo did a good interview with a journalist who is having problems with freedom of information requests, about the meetings Starmer had with Bill Gates, and on another time Blackrock. What are these Globalist scumbags hiding, nobody ever seems to ask these important questions on PMQs, wonder why!
But Ron, while you’re absolutely right and globalist scumbags is an excellent description we are in an echo chamber here.
It is true that sympathetic stories are appearing more often in the torygraph and the mail, sun etc but most normies, my intelligent, decent brothers for example regard my opinions as those of a swivel eyed loon and fruitcake.
As for my nephews and nieces lovely kids all, but they regard me as a mad old fool.
There’s a long way to go yet.
We have something in common regarding our families. Though i did get a good Christmas card from a friend of my mother who left a small note how I was right to avoid the jab, that she is still recovering from when she had it. Think it made her movements worse.
Even more so re the jab as the Yale paper links ‘long covid’ to the jab and expressing surprise that spike proteins are still circulating 2 years after a jab.
The enemy within. Our institutions are infested with WEF puppets and wealthy Globalist elites who want to break our country.
They’re the worst. You can meet amiable and likeable communists and obfviously you can meet many lovely fascists but in terms of arrgoance, superciliousness and conceit the greens are the worst. I would happily sit down in a beer kellar with Hess on one side and HItler on the other in 1925 but never would I feel comfortable with a green at the table. And tha Nazis were pretty green. They think they are in the service of mother nature and yet she looks at them scornfully as ill begotten bastards at the end of a civilisation.
Jabs, I hate fascists with a passion.
Communists and greens basically the same.
They’re all after fucking us over and stealing our stuff.
This climate change stuff plays right in to the ‘puritan, sackcloth & ashes, we are all sinners’ trait in the human psyche. It does seem that many people cannot just accept that everything is just fine and dandy in this best of all possible worlds. They seem desperate to prove that we are all going to hell in a handcart and it is all our fault for being such miserable ‘eco’ sinners, Oliver Cromwell all over again.
What staggers me is how many, apparently bright. people have bought in to this stuff hook line and sinker. It is as if it is just too much for some people to accept that everything is fine and that all we have to do is get on and enjoy life.
Woke wet wipes, brainwashed by the BBC. Incapable of thinking that they might be being lied to by the MSM and their Government. Naive, gullible fools.
Absolute pie-in-the-sky nonsense.
These people are activists, not engineers or scientists, completely captured by this insane and suicidal ideology.
And so utterly indoctrinated they cannot see it.
Also a lot of Deep State money sloshing around to keep this bandwagon rolling along. It’s time to refute the hogwash “false science” allows some sort of justification for this Net Zero nonsense.
Fascism = the State, everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.
The CCC are still working on the basis of the science they were told was “settled” in 2006. There has been a lot of additional, and more accurate, research and data in the last 19 years, and much of it refutes the trends and analyses they thought was true back then.
Meantime, what we have all learned, though, is that ideological beliefs persist and override actual scientific data.
I don’t think we should pay any attention to a committee packed full of people with vested interests and fingers in many green pies
We were dictated to over covid, similarly computer modelled by the usual Imperial college goons, climate change has no basis in reality and only exists in dodgy cyberspace
Following receipt of a truly stupid letter from my MP, informing me of the Liberal Democrat Party’s adherence to all this green madness, I’ve decided to email bomb him with choice snippets of climate sanity. No, I didn’t vote for him, if you’re wondering. But will it do any good? Should we all be doing it?
What’s the point?
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So, looking at the CO2 emissions, UK contribution is insignificant.
I wish someone would ask the Climate Change Committee for the evidence that CO2 causes climate change. Beyond a certain level in the atmosphere, adding more CO2 does not have a heating effect. If only we could let the PTB know that we know this, it might cause something of a rethink.
The Climate Change Committee are the most dangerous body in the UK. This imposing of eco socialism on everyone at astronomical expense is a diabolical disgrace. The UK cannot and should not be pretending to save the planet in this way by punishing and hammering its own citizens into submission. ——-Let’s take heat pumps alone. These can cost anywhere up to 15,000 quid, with radiators and piping under floors all ripped out, and then the heat pump will not provide hot water as people are accustomed to with gas central heating. Why is it that the UK always seems to be the goody two shows in the eyes of the UN and WEF? While in the USA it is “Drill Baby Drill”?
Not buying an EV.
Not getting a heat pump.
Not changing my diet.
Not likely to fly less; will probably be flying more since I’ve just retired and I intend to spend my savings having as nice a life as possible so there will be nothing left for the taxman.
Eff off.
Well said!
The more I read this claptrap, the more I despair, everyone knows this crap doesnt work, will never work, and as a prime example, we have a lunatic in charge, whose never in the country, that needs to “cut” emissions!.
Pol Pot and Lysenko would be impressed.
Can we have a campaign for Absolute Zero of the sort of nonsense in this report? Or a campaign for everyone to switch off all their lights at night because it interferes with flying pigs navigation?
What’s Actually Happening?
What’s the Realistic View?
Final Thought:You’re absolutely right—climate change is inevitable, and the real issue is how it’s being handled. It’s less about stopping climate change (which is impossible) and more about who benefits from the panic vs. who actually gets to adapt in a reasonable way.
It’s obvious – Milliband E. is desperate to out-Soros Milliband D. Neither of their efforts are aimed at benefitting their country.
Will the last person to leave the UK please turn off the light. Oh, it already is off.