UK government urged to scrap phrase net zero as it has become 'toxic'

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2026-09-17

London (PA Media/dpa) - The phrase net zero should be scrapped by the UK government as it has become toxic to the public, an influential group of MPs recommended on Thursday. The cross-party House of Commons Energy Security and Net Zero Committee - which itself uses the term in its name - said "net zero" had lost much of its previously positive association and recommended dropping it from the name of the government department responsible for ener......

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