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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

INSANE: Labour warned it risks losing support for net zero if costs not spread fairly | Rare Historical Photos

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at a meeting in Downing Street
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are being urged to back decarbonisation as the engine of Britain’s economic growth. Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP

Ensuring that the costs of decarbonisation are shared fairly across society must be a top priority for ministers or they risk losing public support for net zero, the UK’s chief climate adviser has warned.

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves should be making a “strong, confident” case for decarbonisation as an engine of economic growth, according to Emma Pinchbeck, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, the independent statutory adviser.

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