UK throws down gauntlet to Net Zero critics

  • Gas
  • April 25, 2025

The UK Energy Secretary told Net Zero critics to “bring it on” as he said its government is committed to driving clean power at the close of the two-day conference in London on the future of energy security.

After referring to yesterday’s investment from , which will generate 2,000 jobs, Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero said, “The critics will not shut up, I’m sure, but … let’s bring on the fight. Let’s have the argument any day of the week, any hour of the day. We will have the argument between cheap clean renewables against their expensive, insecure fossil fuels which gave us the cost of living crisis and which ruined public finances. This government is not for bending.”

The meeting at Lancaster House in London drew 60 government leaders and more than 50 industry leaders.

With the US embarking on a multinational tariff policy – as well as putting its full backing behind gas and oil development – Miliband reiterated the importance of “doubling down on multilateralism” and working closer on a clean energy transition, which he described as “unstoppable”.

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