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CCC’s cost estimate for net zero ‘pie in the sky’

Energy

22 November 2019
 

The Committee on Climate Change’s estimates for the cost of decarbonising the UK economy are “pie in the sky” and should not be listened to, a former Government chief scientist has said.

“If politicians listen to them, we are in trouble,” Michael Kelly, a former chief scientist at the Department of Communities and Local Government, said in the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture. “We have real-world data that shows that the cost would run...

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