Conservatives abandon net zero for North Sea oil push

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Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Alex Burghart says the UK’s 2050 net zero target risks raising costs for businesses, families, and public services with minimal global impact, as Conservatives drop the net zero plans they introduced and push for further extraction of North Sea oil. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Kimi Bey not gave a speech earlier this year where she said, look, we've got to be realistic.

00:04Net zero by 2050 is not going to be achievable.

00:08The world's two largest economies, the US and China, are not pursuing net zero.

00:14And we contribute, I think, about 1% of global emissions,

00:18and that there is a real danger that all we're going to do in pursuing the 2050 target

00:23is put additional costs on businesses and on families and on public services

00:27whilst having an absolutely minimal impact on global emissions.

00:32What we should be doing is using our own oil and gas in order,

00:37rather than importing oil and gas from other countries, we should get that revenue,

00:40we should get those jobs, we should protect communities like the one in Aberdeen

00:45that Kimi will be visiting this week, whilst we're on a longer-term transition

00:49to a decarbonised economy, which we all know we're going to get to eventually.

00:52The question is the pace and protecting the British economy in the meantime.

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