“The job now” is to get on with mapping out the path to achieve a net-zero target for carbon emissions by 2050.

Rachel Reeves MP, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee wrote to Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer, recently, with a series of questions concerning reports that government estimates have put the cost of meeting the net zero carbon emissions target by 2050 at £1 trillion.