'100% committed': Sunak vows hit to net zero targets as he scraps key climate policies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Fund managers warn government over net zero targetIn more positive news for the green economy, Sunak revealed he would be increasing the subsidy for households that installed heat pumps by 50%, from £5,000 to £7,500, and announced a new $150m 'Green Future Fellowship' to support scientists and researchers working to develop breakthrough green technologies.
54% : Investor confidenceHowever, the government's move to weaken a number of key climate policies has been blasted by business leaders, environmental campaigners, opposition politicians and Tory backbenchers, who have argued watering down decarbonisation policies would hurt those firms already invested in clean technology supply chains and deter billions of pounds of inward investment.
51% : It is crucial that we give those businesses confidence that government is still committed to net zero and can see the way ahead.
47% : Sunak insisted that changing the targets would not increase economic instability and hurt future clean tech investment in the UK, and would instead provide government with the social license it needed to enact policies that could deliver climate targets.
47% : "Widespread concern about the impact the latest policy U-turns would have on investor confidence comes just a few weeks after the country's latest state-backed clean energy auction failed to achieve any bids from offshore wind developers, after government ignored calls from industry to make the terms of the auction more attractive for private sector investors.

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