UK efforts to deal with energy crisis ‘raise risk of missing net zero target’

Emissions related to UK power generation have fallen by 73% since 1990. Photograph: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images

Ministers’ efforts to tackle the energy bills crisis have left the UK at risk of missing a key target to source green power and are threatening the country’s net zero goal, the government spending watchdog has said.

The government said in 2021 it wanted all electricity to be generated from low-carbon sources by 2035, a pillar in the plan to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.