Scrap the legally binding net zero target
“All of this is why my Conservative Party has pledged to scrap the carbon tax — the biggest green levy — and scrap the legally binding target for Net Zero by 2050.”
- Promised
Where it stands
The Conservatives are not in government, so the card stays at Promised. The target of net zero by 2050 is set in law by the Climate Change Act 2008, as amended in 2019. Scrapping the carbon tax, the other half of the sentence, is part of the party's cheap power plan, which has its own card.
What has happened
- Aug 2026Kemi Badenoch writes that the Conservatives have pledged to scrap the carbon tax and the legally binding target for net zero by 2050, Promised
About the cost
No cost has been published.
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