Did Energy Security Day bring the UK any closer to net zero by 2050?

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Environment, Uk, Farming, Green Alliance, News, Sustainability, Society & Culture, Government

4.9 • 34 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The anticipated UK government's Energy Security Day on 30 March 2023 left much to be desired. While progress was made for heat pumps and the zero emission vehicles mandate, and the government seems to have abided by the High Court’s ruling, the UK's overall ambition to reduce emissions largely remained unchanged. In this special edition of the Green Alliance podcast, our research director Roz Bulleid sits down with our policy experts to discuss progress, where Energy Security Day fell short and what more this government can do before an election. Ahead of Energy Security Day, Green Alliance published a net zero policy tracker which revealed that the government is not on track to meet net zero by 2050, with a lack of ambition and policy delivery across all sectors. Look out for our updated analysis coming soon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast.
0:03.6	We are the charity and think tank that is all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.
0:08.8	I'm Ross Bullied, Research Director at Green Alliance,
0:11.1	and we're bringing you this podcast special with an extended cast to discuss what ended up being known as Energy Security Day,
0:17.4	which was the publication in late March of almost 3,000 pages of climate-related
0:21.6	policy papers.
0:26.8	Late in March, the government released nearly 3,000 pages of climate-related policy papers
0:31.3	on what ended up being known as Energy Security Day, perhaps because no one could bear
0:35.4	any more jokes about Green Day, which was its previous
0:38.0	name. We've compiled a panel of Green Alliance experts to tell you everything you need to know
0:42.4	and give their hot takes and what matters and what doesn't. Joining me, we have Helena Bennett,
0:46.8	our head of climate policy, Lydia Collis, one of our leads on agriculture and land use,
0:50.9	Sam Alvis, head of economy, and Sophie O'Connell has been coordinating our net zero
0:55.0	policy tracker and we'll cover that a little bit more and the politics of the announcement.
0:59.7	The reason why we had an energy security day dates back to the release of the government's net
1:03.7	zero strategy back in 2021. That set out delivery plans for meeting the legally mandated emissions
1:09.4	targets for the sixth carbon
1:10.9	budget period in the mid-2030s. But gaps in the strategy led to a successful legal challenge
1:16.1	and the government being given until the end of March to provide more detail. It then wrapped
1:21.1	that up with an overdue response to last summer's annual progress report from the climate change
1:25.2	committee and a response from the Net Zero review
1:27.5	carried out for the government by Chris Gidmore MP.
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