In the UK, Net Zero has been crumbling for over a year and is beginning the sudden collapse stage. Now the only people backing Net Zero are the reality-denying zealots of DESNZ and the CCC, David Turver writes.
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Net Zero Crumbling Slowly At First, Then Suddenly
By David Turver, 5 October 2025
A decade ago, the leaders of the three main parties, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband signed their pledge that effectively took climate and energy policy out of the democratic process.
Although it was not yet enshrined in law, this agreement effectively paved the way for Theresa May to set the Net Zero target in 2019. By 2021, our envoy to COP26, Alok Sharma was gleefully blowing up coal-fired power stations and Rishi Sunak was boasting of aligning £130 trillion of the world’s financial assets with the Paris Agreement climate goals, or what we might now see as western economic suicide.
The only opposition to the Net Zero juggernaut was the tiny think tank GWPF/NZW [Global Warming Policy Foundation/Net Zero Watch] alongside a few dissident bloggers and journalists like Ben Pile, Andrew Orlowski and Ross Clarke. Later, they were joined by the likes of yours truly and Kathryn Porter. The Net Zero citadel was virtually impregnable.
Fast forward a few years and last year Reform ran on a platform of ditching Net Stupid Zero and earlier this year, Kemi Badenoch signalled that the Tories no longer believed Net Zero was achievable by 2050. The number of journalists writing about the follies of Net Zero and UK energy policy had also grown. Net Zero no longer looked impregnable; cracks were beginning to appear, but progress was slow.
However, on Thursday, Kemi announced that the Conservative Party plans to repeal the Climate Change Act, which underpins all the Net Zero nonsense. They have also committed to abolishing the Climate Change Committee. Their full announcement can be found on the link: ‘2025 10 01 Climate Change Act [special Brief]’ (download).
This new policy signals the sudden collapse stage of the Net Zero folly. The change is already heralding a change in the world of policymaking wonks and think tanks. In the run-up to the Tories’ announcement, the priesthood of Net Zero has been queuing up to endorse the Net Zero Reformation.
First, we had “chairman” Michael Liebreich calling for a “pragmatic climate reset” suggesting that historical overreaches should be wound back and for the legitimate concerns of voters to be addressed. Sam Richards, CEO of Britain Remade, has posted an astonishing mea culpa. He advised Boris Johnson to expand offshore wind but is now saying that development of renewables should be paused and the Clean Power 2030 plan should be scrapped. Even Octopus Energy is thinking out loud that the focus should be on electrification, not renewables. This about turn from the commentariat and wider blob comes against the background of a string of profit warnings from renewables operators and investment funds and the mammoth rights issue from Orsted. The Net Zero agenda is collapsing.
It is interesting that this change of heart has come from people who have largely never had to wonder about the engineering marvels that had to occur behind the scenes to ensure the lights stayed on when they turned on their cookers. Perhaps the blackout in Spain and Portugal earlier this year has focused minds on the dangers of too many intermittent renewables on the grid.
We can now see that the empty rhetoric of the “Saudi Arabia of Wind” and “Green Energy Superpower” was the triumph of narrative over numbers and optics over substance. These people in wonk-land never had to worry about choosing between heating or eating; they were not concerned about increasing energy debt and were totally at ease as heavy industry collapsed. They are ignorant of maths; the closest they have ever come to imaginary numbers is the increasingly implausible cost estimates from the CCC [Climate Change Committee]. They are also ignorant of economics as they clapped like seals at the “nine times cheaper than gas” mantra. We should welcome their Damascene conversion, but be cautious that their new message might be just as fickle as the old.
Kemi’s announcement came the day after Ed Miliband’s speech at the Labour Conference, where he claimed Nigel Farage and Reform are “investment crushing, job destroying, bill raising, poverty driving, science denying, Putin appeasing, young people betraying bunch of ideological extremists.”
I think this is what psychologists call projection. Miliband is accusing his opponents of wanting to do the very same things he is already doing himself. Jim Ratcliff’s INEOS has ended all UK investment because of Net Zero policies pushing up taxes on North Sea oil and gas and expensive energy prices. This, of course, destroys jobs too. Miliband is pushing up bills by pressing ahead with Allocation Round 7 [the latest competitive funding round in the UK’s primary mechanism for supporting low-carbon electricity generation, which aims to secure new renewable energy capacity to help meet the UK’s net zero targets], extending contracts to 20 years and offering prices that are much more expensive than gas-fired generation and of course high bills drive poverty. Miliband denies the physics of intermittent renewables and seems totally unaware of the Laws of Thermodynamics. If Miliband (and the European Union) really wanted to damage Putin, they would have all got behind “drill, baby drill” because an increased supply of hydrocarbons would reduce prices so cutting revenues to the Russian regime. Pursuing expensive and intermittent energy sources as an ideological goal, coupled with the associated economic destruction, does far more to betray the younger generation than almost any other policy.
Net Zero has been crumbling for over a year and is beginning the sudden collapse stage. Now the only people backing Net Zero are the reality-denying zealots of DESNZ [Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, headed by Ed Miliband] and the CCC. We can imagine Miliband, his head of Mission Control Chris Stark and the new chair of the CCC Nigel Topping barricaded in their ivory tower with their fingers in their ears saying “la-la-la” as Emma Pinchbeck crouches in a corner rocking on her haunches humming ‘Kumbaya’. If Starmer wants to survive and to get the country growing again, he has to fire Miliband and follow Farage and Badenoch by abandoning Net Zero. Then the collapse will be complete.
Author’s note: I have been invited to speak at the Battle of Ideas Festival on 18th October on the subject of ‘Why is my energy bill so high?’ You can get 20% off any ticket price by clicking on this link.
About the Author
David Turver is a British retired consultant, chief information officer and project management professional. He publishes articles on a Substack page titled ‘Eigen Values’ where he writes about contentious issues such as climate, energy and net zero. You can subscribe to and follow his Substack page HERE.
Featured image: Environment Secretary Ed Miliband. Source: Getty Images
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“Carbon Footprint”
by The Zunts
“It ain’t about the climate, that much is clear
It’s all about obedience, shaped by fear”
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Hi Rhoda,
It would be a good idea to follow the money.
I suspect all the small hat gang MP’s, would have money invested in expensive green energy early on.
They would have bought shares before the price went up.
Ed Miliband has said nothing about all the Chemtrailing over the UK.
Yet all those roof panels need sunshine.
They are all bringing about the destruction of the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVNMrBIZZh8
The UK MP’s in action.
Lockstep
It’s not the first time either https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LWl_nB5yvBU
Net zero is conceptual nonsense. Achievability is irrelevant. Let us go back to basic biology. When is photosynthesis ever mentioned in this context..
I’m sick of seeing my PM clocking up more airmiles than some pilots. The Net Zero agenda is collapsing. It’s time for an honest, practical approach. One that protects prosperity, keeps the lights on, and supports the people who build, grow, and power this country.
interesting; starmer is not intelligent enough to know anything other than what he knows; but those fingers pulling his strings will know; labour is finished, conservative is desperate, and if the people really want a future then they will forget about Farage… the corrupt will be exposed, the mortgage fraud, the fraudulent council tax will be gone, the fraudulent contracts between government umbrella companies such as British Gas will be exposed; there is a future but not one where the Band-Aid is placed over the gushing wound; the people must come together, end of story, all…
I cannot but agree! However desirable Mr Farage might seem at the moment, he and his future cabinet colleagues are only a tiny number. No small group of people has the skills to fix Britain.
You might be interested in panocracy (panocracy.net)
This whole Carbon thing is so laughable. We are supposed to believe that we are releasing 9.5 billion metric tons of Carbon into the world’s atmosphere every year. Where does this Carbon come from? The climate alarmists tell us it is in the CO2. Well let me state that CO2 is a compound /molecule. One atom of Carbon is joined to two atoms of Oxygen. It is very difficult to separate the Carbon atom from the two Oxygen atoms. It is accomplished when using dry CO2 as a shielding gas when wire feed welding (GMAW). In the intense heat of this welding arc the CO2 breaks up into Carbon Monoxide and Oxygen, and then recombines back into CO2, and a good strong weld can be made. A Carbon atom is so small that it can fit in between an Iron atom. A Carbon atom has a diameter of 0.14 to 0.15 nm (nano meter). Even a Field Emission Electron microscope cannot see one. CO2 is heavier than air. CO2 is essential to life on earth. Question: Where is this 9.5 billion metric tons of Carbon?
Shilling for the Tories!!
Tories were in power for 14 years if you think anyone will trust a thing they say now you are rudely mistaken