It was supposed to be called “Green Day” – a big presentation of the national strategy for reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050. But it has been rebranded, apparently.
The event, taking place in Aberdeen on 30 March, will no longer share a name with the California pop-punk band; ministers are understood to have plumped for the less lyrical “energy security day”. But climate campaigners fear it looks set to be, to quote Green Day’s 2004 hit, a Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
