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Kemi Badenoch is poised to ditch a legal commitment to reach Net Zero by 
2050, saying hitting the target is "impossible".

In a major speech today, the Conservative Party leader will say that 
drastically cutting carbon emissions cannot be achieved without bankrupting 
the country or hitting living standards.

She will seek to put clear blue water between her party and Labour, blasting 
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband for spending "all of his time serving up dollops 
of lofty rhetoric".

But Mrs Badenoch also risks angering swathes of Tories as she takes aim at 
her

predecessors for putting the Net Zero emissions target into law.

In 2019, the UK became the first major economy to pass legislation requiring 
it to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050. It means any 
emissions must be balanced by schemes to offset an equivalent amount of 
greenhouse gases from the atmosphere - from planting trees or using carbon 
capture.

But Mrs Badenoch will say today that there has "never, ever been a detailed 
plan" to meet the target.

The goal is a 'multi-trillion, 30-year project touching every single aspect 
of our lives", she will say, yet it was 'decided in 90 minutes without a 
single vote".

Mrs Badenoch is expected to urge politicians to stop "pretending to the next 
generation". "It's exactly the reason that the political class has lost 
trust. The only way that we can regain it is to tell the unvarnished truth. 
Net Zero by 2050 is impossible.

"I don't say that with pleasure. Or because I have some ideological desire to 
dismantle it - in fact, we must do what we can to improve our natural world.

"I say it because to anyone who has done any serious analysis knows it can't 
be achieved without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting 
us."

Mrs Badenoch will insist the Tories "care deeply about our natural 
environment" and "badly want to improve it", but the current policies are 
failing to do this while also driving up the cost of energy.

"We're falling between two stools - too high costs and too little progress." 
As well as drawing a dividing line with Labour, the policy marks a break from 
previous Tory leaders including Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron.

Lord Cameron once urged people to "vote blue, go green", while Mr Johnson 
criticised Rishi Sunak over his plans to U-turn on some Net Zero commitments. 
Earlier this month, Mr Sunak told the BBC that the Net Zero commitment - put 
into law by Baroness May - should be ditched.

Mrs Badenoch will make the comments as she launches the Conservative Party 
"policy renewal process" today - a bid to build a strategic policy programme 
for government. She will say the party cannot "shortcut our way back into 
office with easy answers or rushed announcements", but must 'develop credible 
plans that reflect the shared conservative values of personal responsibility, 
citizenship, sound money, family, freedom and so much more".

It is understood that ditching the legal commitment to reach Net Zero by 2050 
is on the table in the policy discussions, though it is unclear if she would 
replace the target date.

Other ideas to be examined include pulling out of the European Convention on 
Human Rights and other international treaties, as well as the idea of a 
single tax rate on all incomes, something Mrs Badenoch said last year was 
"very attractive". But Mrs Badenoch is expected to face a backlash from some 
within her own party over the Net Zero plans.

Last night the Conservative Environment Network - a forum which supports Net 
Zero - said it was "a mistake for Kemi Badenoch to have jumped the gun on her 
own policy review and decide Net Zero isn't possible by 2050". Its director 
Sam Hall said: "This undermines the significant environmental legacy of 
successive Conservative governments who provided the outline of a credible 
plan for tackling climate change.

"The important question now is how to build out this plan in a way that 
supports growth, strengthens security, and follows conservative, free market 
principles."

He added: "Kemi is right that Labour's approach is not credible; it risks 
undermining Net Zero with higher prices. It is also vital the party reviews 
the legal framework and policy mix for climate action to ensure they are 
truly market-oriented.

"However, the Net Zero target is driven not by optimism but by scientific 
reality."

Last night activists interrupted a speech by Mrs Badenoch to the Centre for 
Policy Studies. One protester from Climate Resistance said the Tories had 
"allowed extreme wealth to be amassed by a tiny minority, fuelling climate 
crisis and poverty".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14509003/Kemi-Badenoch-set-ditch-
legal-commitment-reach-Net-Zero-2050-claiming-hitting-target-impossible.html

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