All hail the net zero strategy: a year late and lacking in both ambition and funding

The UK rushed out its climate plan just days before Cop26 - and it shows. The planet can't afford further bluster and delayIn politics, timing is everything. Last week the government set out its strategy for meeting its net zero carbon targets: this came a year later than expected, and less than a fortnight before the UK finds itself front and centre on the global stage as host of the Cop26 UN climate talks in Glasgow.The long-awaited climate blueprint covered wide-ranging "net zero" ambitions from renewable energy and electric vehicles to carbon capture and electric heat pumps - and yet still offered too little, if not entirely too late. Continue reading...