British Labour Get together considers “Workplace for Internet Zero” – What’s occurring with it?

Essay by Eric Worrall

Never before has the name of a proposed Whitehall task force been so apt.

Election 2024: Labour wants to create a new net zero office in government to drive green transition

Sources said the new office would demonstrate a commitment to the rollout of clean energy by 2030 and draw an important dividing line with the Tories.

Alexandra Rogers
Political reporter @Journoamrogers
Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 03:04, UK

According to Sky News, if Labour wins the election it will step up its efforts to achieve a carbon neutrality target and deploy a dedicated team of officials to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions.

The party's transition team, led by Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff Susanne Grayis considering setting up a net zero office if it forms the next government, sources say, with a focus on delivering on the clean energy target set out in its manifesto.

It is not yet clear whether the new office will report to the Cabinet Office – one of the government's key control centres alongside 10 Downing Street and the Treasury – or to the existing Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Emissions (Desnez).

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While the Labour Party has announced measures to accelerate the transition to net zero, including doubling onshore wind, tripling solar and quadrupling offshore wind by 2030, Mr Sunak's approach is more cautious.

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Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/election-2024-labour-to-create-new-office-for-net-zero-in-government-to-push-green-transition-13156557

If only the Net Zero initiative had existed back when the BBC was still producing comedy shows.

In the famous BBC sitcom Yes Minister, MP Jim Hacker and his counterpart, Secretary of State Sir Humphrey Appleby, ran the Department of Administrative Affairs, a fictional Whitehall ministry whose responsibilities were poorly defined and which achieved nothing of significance throughout the series.

But the Office for Net Zero beats the Department of Administrative Affairs in terms of implicit uselessness. I mean, there is a vague expectation that the Department of Administrative Affairs could actually be expected to achieve something. But the Office for Net Zero – can you imagine a Net Zero progress report?

Labour leader Keir Starmer's incoming government was destined from the start to be a comedy special – with radical Green politicians using Karl Marx as a guide to fixing the economic deficiencies of the British energy market.

Don't lose important peripheral appendages through frosty humor.

But please keep the title “Office for Net Zero” for the elite team of bureaucrats who will be in charge of getting everything sorted. Writing future WUWT articles about the developing energy disaster in the “Office for Net Zero” would just be icing on the cake.

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