The Government's priorities for supporting the transition to zero-carbon society and protecting the environment were outlined during Chancellor of the Exchequor, Rishi Sunak’s spring 2020 budget. Below are the key points he announced in his speech and, as ever, the real-life implications will become clearer as the details are revealed during the coming few weeks.
Climate change and energy
- restore 30,000 hectares of peatland for carbon storage
Plastics, waste & pollution
Transport
Biodiversity
Innovation
BBC Radio 4's 'World at One' featured live coverage of budget. Hear Chancellor Rishi Sunak outlining the Budget’s environmental provisions at 53:25 minutes https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g44j More details outlining the Budget’s green policies can be read here: https://www.edie.net/news/11/Clean-transport--CCS-and-biodiversity-championed-in-Budget-2020/?utm_source=dailynewsletter,%20edie%20daily%20newsletter&utm_medium=email,%20email&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter,%20fe15d492fa-dailynewsletter_COPY_756 Read some of the reaction to the Budget’s sustainability proposals: Edie newsroom: “A mixed picture: key green economy figures react to the Budget’s environmental provisions” https://www.edie.net/news/11/-A-mixed-picture---Key-green-economy-figures-react-to-the-Budget-s-environmental-provisions/?utm_source=dailynewsletter,%20edie%20daily%20newsletter&utm_medium=email,%20email&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter,%20fe15d492fa-dailynewsletter_COPY_756 Damien Carrington, The Guardian: “Rishi Sunack fails to even mention energy efficiency, the no-brainer climate policy” https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/11/road-to-hell-budget-tarmacs-over-climate-ambition Jon Stone, The Independent: “Budget endangers net-zero climate target passed by Theresa May just nine months ago” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/budget-2020-climate-crisis-net-zero-rishi-sunak-theresa-may-boris-johnson-a9394721.html Chris Venables, Green Alliance, “Did this budget really ‘get it done’ for the environment?”: https://greenallianceblog.org.uk/2020/03/11/did-this-budget-really-get-it-done-on-the-environment/ Jonny Bairstow, Energy Live News, “Budget 2020: industry responds” https://www.energylivenews.com/2020/03/11/budget-2020-industry-responds/
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