'Now is not the time to delay': Over 400 businesses urge prime minister not to weaken climate policies

'We are already losing investment'

Ahead of Rishi Sunak's speech yesterday (20 September) revealing the watering down of a host of key climate policies, a group of over 400 business leaders wrote to the prime minister urging him to reconsider plans to weaken the UK's Net Zero Strategy.

The letter - backed by Nestle, IKEA, Brunel, Aviva Investors, E.ON, and many other CEOs, including the bosses of a host of trade bodies and campaign groups - warned that diluting policies designed to accelerate the rate of home insulation, roll out green heating technologies and enable the transition to electric vehicles would undermine British competitiveness. '100% committed': Sunak vows hit to net zero targets as he scraps key climate policies "The business community has already made substantial investments in the net zero transition and made it clear that sticking to long-term net...