With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero?

<p>Only 15 of 100 MPs surveyed knew of IPCC report that CO₂ needs to peak this year to keep global heating to 1.5C</p><p>The people you hope would be best informed about the imminent threat of climate breakdown would be members of parliament. After all, droughts and storms affecting their constituents have been a recurring news item. The need to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 requires an informed debate among parties.</p><p>The key question on which the latest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/28/what-is-the-ipcc-climate-change-report-and-what-will-it-say">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report</a>, in 2022, reached hard-won scientific consensus was when CO₂ emissions need to peak for a realistic chance of keeping global temperature increases below 1.5C, the target set by the 2015 Paris agreement as too dangerous to exceed. The answer, given great prominence in the report and the media coverage of it, was this year, 2025.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oct/10/with-most-mps-ignorant-of-the-urgency-how-can-the-uk-ever-reach-net-zero">Continue reading...</a>