Conservative party to ditch commitment to net zero in UK by 2050
Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday
Kiran Stacey Political correspondent
Mon 17 Mar 2025 18.30 EDT
Kemi Badenoch is dropping her party’s commitment to reaching net zero by 2050, as she launches the Conservatives’ widest policy review in a generation.
The Tory leader will give a speech on Tuesday in which she will argue that hitting Britain’s legally binding climate target is “impossible”, abandoning one of the most significant policies enacted by her recent predecessor Theresa May.
The net zero commitment was emblematic of the cross-party consensus on tackling climate change, which Badenoch has promised to unpick as part of her determination to move on from the Conservatives’ general election defeat last year.
“We’ve got to stop pretending to the next generation,” she will say. “We’ve got to stop government by press release.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/17/conservative-party-to-ditch-commitment-to-net-zero-in-uk-by-2050
