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In order to deliver on the government's legally binding 2050 net zero commitment, a series of big UK policy headline announcements were made, including:
In October – just ahead of the COP26 Climate Change Conference, the government published its full Net Zero Strategy and its Heat and Buildings Strategy. These announcements were underpinned by billions of pounds of funding to support green innovation and decarbonisation across the power, transport and heat sectors.
The Net Zero Strategy set out the plan to 'lower Britain’s reliance on fossil fuels by investing in sustainable clean energy, while reducing the risk of high and volatile prices in the future, and strengthening energy security'. The government claimed that this will generate up to £90 billion of private investment by 2030, and support 440,000 green jobs in 2030.
October's big policy launches built on commitments made in the Clean Growth Strategy(2) and 2020's Energy White Paper and 10-point plan for a 'green industrial revolution'. These were expanded by 4 key energy strategies announced earlier in the year.
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