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Powering Up Britain ¨C The Net Zero Growth Plan
Introduction
Capitalising on green growth
Reducing Emissions across the Economy
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Power
26
Fuel Supply and Hydrogen
36
Industry
47
Heat and buildings
57
Transport
63
Natural Resources, Waste & F-Gases
71
Greenhouse Gas Removals
77
Supporting the Transition across the Economy 82
Innovation
82
Green Finance and Investment
88
Net Zero Workforce
92
Embedding Net Zero in Government
104
Local Net Zero
109
Empowering the Public and Business to
Make Green Choices
114
International Leadership
117
Endnotes
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Powering Up Britain ¨C The Net Zero Growth Plan
Introduction
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Powering Up Britain ¨C The Net Zero Growth Plan
Introduction
Energy security and net zero are two sides of the same coin. The energy transition
and net zero are among the greatest opportunities facing this country and we are
committed to ensuring that the UK takes advantage of its early mover status. Global action
to mitigate climate change is essential to long term prosperity ¨C the overall costs and risks
of global warming to be equivalent to losing between 5% and 20% of global GDP each
year.1
After decades of reliance on imported fossil fuels, the new Department for Energy
Security and Net Zero¡¯s mission is to replace them with cheaper, cleaner, domestic
sources of energy. In response to high household energy bills resulting from Putin¡¯s
invasion of Ukraine, the government stepped in, paying around half of the average
household¡¯s energy bills over winter and around half of wholesale energy costs for some
businesses. But the way to maintain lower cost energy for everyone is to move to cleaner
and cheaper energy to protect us from volatile international energy markets, while
underpinning our clean energy transition, so the UK becomes a net zero economy by
2050. It will also help us make sure Britain has among the cheapest wholesale electricity
prices in Europe by 2035.
The UK has already made huge progress in decarbonising its economy and
decoupling emissions from economic growth. Thanks to the Climate Change Act
(2008) and Environment Act (2021), we have a strong legal framework for reaching net
zero emissions by 2050. Between 1990 and 2021, we have cut our emissions by 48%,
decarbonising faster than any other G7 country, whilst growing the economy by 65%. The
UK was also the first G7 country to sign net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 into
law.
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