UK Govt Must Impose Radical Lifestyle Changes On Citizens Says Climate Change Committee

The UK’s official Net Zero advisory body has told the Government that to hit Net Zero it must impose radical lifestyle changes on the population.

According to the Clinate Change Committee Brits need to reduce meat and dairy consumption, drive EV’s, stop having holidays abroad and install heat pumps in their homes over the next decade.

The Mail Online reports: In its Seventh Carbon Budget, which sets a limit for UK greenhouse gas emissions between 2038 to 2042, the committee also piled pressure on Brits to buy electric cars, fly less, and cut their meat and dairy consumption.

The report said, in order to meet the country’s Net Zero ambition, three-quarters of cars and vans and two-thirds of heavy good vehicles (HGVs) would need to be electric by 2040.

At the same time, Brits should be shunning their cars to cycle and walk more, while eating 25 per cent less meat, the committee stated. 

Holidaymakers were warned of more expensive flights as the committee urged the Government to commit to a 17 per cent fall in aviation emissions compared to 2023.

Demand for air travel needed to be managed to curb emissions, with airlines taking responsibility for the costs of decarbonising through sustainable fuels, capturing carbon, and electric and hybrid plans, the committee said.

That would push up costs, for example increasing the price of a return ticket to Alicante, Spain, by £150 and a round-trip to New York could be £300 more expensive by 2050, according to the report.

The CCC is an independent body, set up under the last Labour government in 2008, that advises ministers and reports to Parliament on progress made in reducing the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Critics of Net Zero policies condemned the latest report as the committee’s ‘usual Marxist garbage’ and urged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to ‘face down the zealots’ as his Labour administration scrambles for economic growth.