Labour should set up a powerful new unit with powers equal to the Treasury to spearhead efforts to achieve net zero, if it wins the next election, a new report has urged. The study, by the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) network of academics, was set up to assess Labour’s plans to establish a public owned energy company which would be known as Great British Energy (GBE). Yet more important than this, the ERA concluded, is the establishment of a new Net Zero Delivery Unit with equal status to the Treasury and the power to "direct and hold to account" all ministries across Whitehall.
Labour urged to clip Treasury’s wings by establishing powerful net zero unit
