As the election campaign enters its final days, the head of the business organisations will highlight the “deafening silence from all the parties about the issues of climate change, about biodiversity loss, net zero and our planet” The chief executive of the Confederation of British Industry will today slam the main political parties for a “deafening silence” aboutwill warn of the risks of trying to “separate the economy from net zero” and tell whoever forms the next Government they “can’t be...
They include everything from parts and support services for wind power and other renewable energy sources to facilities that can capture and store CO2 emissions as they are released to technologies that can reduce the manufacturing footprint of cement and steel. “It’s a dangerous error to try and separate the economy from net zero. There is still too much in our political discourse that amounts to – ‘can we afford to go for net zero?’ But the real question is – can we afford not to?”