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Net Zero Watch is highlighting and discussing the serious implications of expensive and poorly considered climate change policies.
Net Zero Watch will scrutinise policies, establish what they really cost, determine who will have to pay, and explore affordable alternatives.
Increasingly conversations about climate and energy policy are becoming narrow and polarised. Net Zero Watch is here to give you a clear view of the reality of climate and energy policies and what they mean for you.
We all want to see a cleaner and better environment for future generations, but if climate and energy policies are rushed and their costs and implications not fully thought through, they will almost certainly do more harm than good.
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| Language | English |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Search ArticlesNet Zero in crisis: Parliament must reject the Seventh Carbon Budget
It is welcome that senior Labour politicians and potential leadership contenders, including Wes Streeting and Al Carns, are finally acknowledging the importance of cheap electricity and the central role it plays in Britain’s prosperity, industrial strength and national security. For too long, the energy debate has been conducted as if costs and security of supply were secondary issues - with decarbonisation being the primary purpose.
Meat and dairy wars: how Net Zero will squeeze British farmers and families
Last week, Ed Miliband confirmed to Parliament that the government will accept the envelope target for the Seventh Carbon Budget. This means that the UK will be required to limit emissions between 2038 and 2042 to 535 MtCO2e, putting emissions in 2040 around 87% below 1990 levels. Legislation is still required and Ministers are yet to explain how they intend to meet their overall target. Miliband has said plans will be published “in due course”.
The cynicism of the Secretary of State
Notably, the increases and the decreases in these controllable costs roughly balance out. In other words, the decision to move just three quarters of the Renewables Obligation subsidies to general taxation seems to have been carefully calibrated to disguise the increases in Net Zero costs. Unfortunately, shortly after the measure was announced, events in the Persian Gulf intervened, and the subsequent increase in gas prices has left us with an increase in bills overall.
Coal Power and National Security
Introduction In an unstable world, energy security – the term encompassing adequacy of supply, instrinsic reliability and resilience to external threats, both natural and manmade – is a pressing concern. This paper argues that that it may best be addressed by the reintroduction of coal-fired power stations to the UK grid. While such as step was unthinkable just 12 months ago, the political landscape is moving quickly.
Sir Tony Blair brings energy realism back to the centre ground
This week, Sir Tony Blair, the former prime minister, waded back into the national conversation on UK grand strategy and public policy. The former Labour Party leader did not hold back - with his intervention landing like an Exocet missile. In a 5,700-word essay, Blair set out what has gone wrong in British politics in recent decades. He characterises the problem as an epistemic failure that has led to policy failure.
We need your help
Dear Supporter, I am writing to ask you to make a donation to support the next phase of Net Zero Watch’s work. We are developing a practical implementation plan to help the next government unwind the laws, regulations and commitments that are driving Britain’s high energy costs. This is detailed work, and it matters. Energy is the master resource. Britain cannot restore growth or political stability until energy costs come down.
The downgrading of the climate apocalypse
For years, the climate debate in the West has treated the end of the world not as a possibility, but as a timetable. In January 2019, Greta Thunberg told the World Economic Forum that “our house is on fire” and that she wanted world leaders to “panic”.
A big fat energy zero
The Spanish periodical El Economista has published some fascinating – and alarming – transcripts of recordings of conversations among country’s grid operators in the days and weeks before the 2025 blackout. This post is a lightly edited machine translation to give Anglophone readers a chance to understand the implications.
Scotland’s energy crisis
Good evening, and thank you for inviting me to speak today. Scotland is often described as an electricity superpower. Not only is that not true, the Scottish grid is actually extremely vulnerable, being held together by just two power stations: Peterhead and Torness. So critical is this dependence that the National Energy System Operator, NESO, will not allow both to go on maintenance at the same time. Yet within the next 5–6 years both could close.
Russia and China will read Miliband’s energy policy as weakness
Commenting on today’s (05 March 2026) statement on energy markets to Parliament by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, Maurice Cousins, Campaign Director at Net Zero Watch, said: The Government’s response to the turmoil in global energy markets is deeply concerning.