Conservatives insist policies to cut emissions drive up power bills. There’s net zero evidence for that

The International Energy Agency found that faster clean energy transitions would have helped to moderate the impact of the current crisis. Photograph: Russell Freeman/AAP

For months conservative politicians and commentators in Australia and around the globe have been desperate to link the world’s energy crisis to policies to get greenhouse gas emissions to net zero.

By blaming the energy crisis on net zero policies, commentators have laid the fears and suffering of people around the world at the feet of climate advocates, the UN and any government with even the most moderate climate goals.