Conservatives promised to abandon British legislation on climate change and replace it with a strategy for “cheap and reliable” energy.
The Law on Climate Climate 2008, which placed goals to reduce emissions into the law, was introduced by the last Labor Government and was strengthened under the leadership of Torri Teresa May.
The leader Tori Kemi Badenoch said that her party wants to leave a “cleaner environment for our children”, but claimed that “the laws of the Labor have connected us with the red ribbon, loaded us with costs and did nothing to reduce global emissions.”
Environmental groups said that this step will become an act of “national self -confusion”, while the Laborists said that it would be an “economic catastrophe and a complete betrayal of future generations”.
The 2008 law, which was adopted when the current Minister of Energy of Ed Miliband played the same role in the Gordon of Braun government, dedicated the UK to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
In 2019, in accordance with the May Prime Minister, this legally mandatory goal was updated before Net Zero reaches by 2050, which means that the UK should reduce carbon emissions until it removes as much as it produces.
At that time, the legislation passed through parliament with the support of all main parties.
Nevertheless, the political consensus has been fragmented since then.
Badenoch previously stated that the goal of Net Zero by 2050 is “impossible” for the UK to meet and promised to “maximize” the extraction of oil and gas from the North SeaField
Reform UK also stated that she would cause pure zero goals if she wins the next electionAccusing a policy of accounts with higher energy and deindustrialization in the UK.
Great Britain was the first country to establish a long -term legal obligatory basis for reducing carbon emissions, and since this law was adopted, many other countries have introduced similar legislation.
Nevertheless, Tori said that this act was forced ministers to “make decisions to achieve arbitrary climatic goals, even if they make the British poorer, destroy jobs and make our economy weaker.”
Badenokh said: “We want to leave a cleaner environment for our children, but without bankrupt the country.
“Climate change is real. But the laws of the Labor have tied us with a red ribbon, loaded us with costs and did nothing to reduce global emissions. Previous conservative governments tried to force the legislation on labor climate to work – they do not.
“Under my leadership, we abandoned these unsuccessful goals. Our priority is now growth, cheaper energy and protection of natural landscapes that we all love. ”
Nevertheless, Miliband said: “This desperate policy from Kemi Badenoch, if when it is realized, will be an economic disaster and a complete betrayal of future generations.
“Conservatives will now abandon the base for which the enterprises carried out the campaign primarily and provided tens of billions of pounds of investment in homegrown British energy, since it was adopted by the government of the Labor Party with conservative support 17 years ago.”
Liberal democrats also criticized the ad.
Energy safety and network representative of Neat Zero Pippa Heylings said: “The reality is that investments in renewable energy sources are the greatest possibility of economic growth in this century and protect the planet for future generations.”
Meanwhile, Richard Benwall, the Executive Director of Wildlife and the rural area of the coalition of ecological groups, said: “The real way to long -term safety is in homegrown pure energy, without burning more fissitive fuel.
“Without mandatory climate legislation, ministers will be free to exchange our future – and it is nature and the poorest communities that will pay the price.”
