New polling released by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) from YouGov has found a widespread public misunderstanding about actual progress being made to net-zero in the UK, with 50 per cent of respondents believing the UK's overall progress is less than halfway or a long way off track and less than one in ten (8 per cent) accurately identifying that the UK is over halfway to achieving it.

Meanwhile, more than three in five (63 per cent) voters believe the UK should be trying to meet its net-zero 2050 target, and a third (29 per cent) felt the UK should modify the target or it should be scrapped.

The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) most recent Progress Report to Parliament shows that the UK's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 54 per cent between the baseline of 1990 and 2025 making one of the fastest decarbonising countries. The UK leads the G20 in decarbonisation, above other rapid decarbonisers include Sweden.

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