
Conservatives double price of climate plan by mistake
Kemi Badenoch's 100-page Conservative conference paper The Right Way puts reaching net-zero — stopping extra heat-trapping gases — at £957bn. The Climate Change Committee advisers put it at £478bn in their Sixth Carbon Budget plan. Climate site Carbon Brief says the paper added the totals row twice, like counting a receipt total again. Correct figures are needed to judge.
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