General – Report
The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) published a report today criticising the UK government’s green policies and urging the energy secretary to drop some of them altogether, including almost completely decarbonising the electricity system by 2030.
The report feeds into growing criticism from the right about the way the government is pursuing its decarbonisation goal and deepens the antagonism between the two former Labour leaders over climate policy.
The report says: “If Clean Power 2030 was ever fit for purpose, that is no longer the case: the world has changed economically, technologically and geopolitically. The UK’s energy framework has not adapted to these new circumstances and as a result, policy is drifting away from the fundamentals it must serve.”
