The UK will miss its target to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 in the absence of widespread changes to how people eat, travel and live, an influential parliamentary group has said.
In a sweeping report on Wednesday, the House of Lords environment and climate change committee warned that the government’s net zero plan had “too great a reliance on as yet undeveloped technologies” and that its approach to enabling behavioural change was “seriously inadequate”.
The peers called on ministers to do more to help people make changes that would cut emissions, such as eating less meat, taking fewer flights and choosing more environmentally friendly products.