Quest for net zero carbon economy must 'urgently accelerate'

It's almost exactly 10 years since then- UK Prime Minister David Cameron was reported to have asked aides to ‘cut the green crap'. While much has changed since then, there was nonetheless a clear echo of Cameron's frustration in the current Prime Minister's recent speech in which he promised to roll-back targets aimed at accelerating the transition to a net zero carbon (NZC) economy . As Mark Twain famously put it, ‘history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme', says Seb Beloe, partner and head of research at WHEB Asset Management Mr Sunak's policy flip-flopping is likely a result o...