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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent

Is the UK government finally seeing sense on renewables?

Kwasi Kwarteng speaking at the Cop26 UN climate conference
Kwasi Kwarteng stressed that gas is more expensive than renewable energy so we need to move away from it. Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

On Monday, as war in Ukraine caused turbulence in the European energy market, and just before the publication of the “bleakest warning yet” from scientists on the climate crisis, the UK’s secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, took to Twitter to set out his case for a clean energy future for the UK.

It was a major intervention from the business secretary, at a vital juncture. Kwarteng is joining many of the biggest voices and leading experts in the UK energy industry in arguing for clean energy and rejecting fossil fuels.

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