Kemi Badenoch is wrong about net zero - but she is right to centre living standards in the debate

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The Conservative Party leader's repudiation of the UK's net zero target undermines the decades of financial, cultural, and infrastructural investment in decarbonising the UK, writes UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) chief executive Smith Mordak

Green groups - including my own, the UK Green Building Council - are rightly speaking out against Kemi Badenoch's claim that it's "impossible" for the UK to meet its 2050 net zero target "without a serious...

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