Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

But, as the CCC's CEO Chris Stark put it during a media briefing this week, that drop in emissions last year was "illusory", rather than demonstrative of the lasting, structural change that will be needed every year in order to hit the UK's climate targets. Yes there are costs to net zero," Stark said this week.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

But that certainly hasn't silenced the doubters, and last month Chris Stark, CEO of the CCC, warned of the dangers posed by the lack of clarity and leadership from the Treasury on the issue. There is a vacuum that is being filled by people who would rather we didn't focus on net zero," he said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout. The ban on onshore wind - which around eight in 10 people support - has been a major anomaly in British energy policy given it's both cheap and popular with the public.

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