Greg Clark has welcomed today’s report from the Committee on Climate Change, stressing it provides a “very useful road-map” for achieving an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.
The Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change said Britain needs to reduce its dependence on an ageing energy infrastructure and increasingly uncertain sources of fossil fuels, and instead begin an “orderly transition” to a low carbon economy.
He stressed that the Government has “a long way to go” to meet the targets recommended by the Climate Change Committee, and warned:
“The absence of a Government energy policy over the last 10 years has made the decisions now needed more urgent and disruptive than they need have been.”
Greg said he was “deeply concerned” by the Committee’s assessment that up to 1.7 million households could be pushed into fuel poverty by the impact of the proposed carbon budgets.
And he promised to press the Government to take action to stop the poorest energy customers being penalised as a result of Labour’s lack of forward planning.