This is a generally excellent piece by Ambrose Evans Pritchard on where the UK's climate strategy is going wrong under Ed Miliband. 👇This bit is key though - in rushing to decarbonise the power sector we are making electrification way harder.

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Looking forward to being on the panel for this Conservative Environment Network event on Tues at Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. It’s in the CEN room, stand 80 in the main hall at 10.30am. I’m then going to be signing copies of Political Animals at the Blackwell’s shop, stand 86, at 12noon.

👏Thanks to all our brilliant speakers on our recent panel - “Powering the future: can we build our way to energy security” It was a lively debate about how to upgrade the grid while keeping costs down and communities on side. Read below for a summary of what they said 👇

As ever, some excellent and thoughtful fringe sessions courtesy of the Conservative Environment Network team at #CPC25 on a range of subjects. And a timely reminder that concern for the #environment is locked into the Tory DNA. Thanks to the whole team for all their work to deliver the programme.

Having arrived back in London after three packed days at #CPC25, I wanted to share some thoughts on this year’s party conference. A short 🧵

South Western Railway was nationalised by Labour in May. Since then: 🫷Cancelations are UP 50% 🫷Delays are UP 29% 🫷Trains 30-60 mins late more than DOUBLED I understand why the unions want nationalisation, but how is it helping passengers or the taxpayer?

Misjudged, counterproductive, impossible. In the Daily Express Harriet Cross MP rightly calls for Labour's Clean Power target to be dropped. To achieve effective climate action it cannot come at the expense of higher energy bills and community consent being overridden.

Disgraceful, forcing any criminal to use a controller that old is cruel and unusual punishment!

It is a mistake not to review the family farm tax The government will not succeed in restoring nature if it keeps undermining farm businesses and toxifying its relationship with farmers who manage 70% of our land

This would be a welcome step. With lots of progress already on rolling out clean power, the most important goal for UK climate action now is electrification. Paying whatever it takes to hit clean power 2030 will make that much harder.

Blaming Brexit for nature loss shows Rory Stewart knows nothing about farming. It was the EU system that ignored nature and hurt small farms. ELMs - created outside the EU - empowered farmers to restore nature. Even as a Remainer, I can see Brexit was fantastic for nature.

I again spoke out against the Chagos Islands “deal”. It betrays British Chagossians & risks one of the world’s most pristine marine environments. Labour’s forcing this through, handing £35bn of taxpayers’ money to Mauritius with no guarantees on protection or rights. Conservative Environment Network

Great to see Aphra Brandreth speaking out against the dreadful Chagos deal, given the impact it will have on the marine environment. It’s outrageous that the government has failed to secure any meaningful guarantees that this precious environment will be protected.

This is the problem - decarbonisation doesn't HAVE to mean higher bills. Labour's approach might. But if you let private investment lead, ditch 2030 clean power, reduce taxpayers' money, you CAN have: Clean, secure, affordable, diverse energy. It ISN'T a binary choice.

Nothing new from Miliband's Carbon Budget Delivery plan today. We desperately need to lower energy bills - even the CCC made that clear. But this was just doubling down on the 2030 Clean Power target and delays to Warm Homes Plan, which means bills will keep spiralling.

In the UK, the price of energy is spiraling. But in British Columbia, the government pays less than half of what Britain does for renewable energy. My new case study for Conservative Environment Network shows how British Columbia used deregulation to unleash private investment in renewable energy. 🧵👇