Government can use research grants, low business taxes and pro-innovation policies to resolve the difficulties. It makes little sense to plough on with taxes and bans.
I don’t think that we serve our children or planet well giving in to the counsel of despair. Tackling it is more akin to an engineering challenge – one we know we can do.
It not only presents a growing opportunity to help provide more secure and clean electricity, heating and fuels but also offers a major source of new industrial growth.
We need to think a little less about the targets, and much more about what people can afford.
When the Chancellor has to sub you two hundred quid to keep the lights, some fresh ideas are needed.
It’s one of the largest sources of clean energy used today and will continue to play a critical role in providing affordable electricity.
Lumping more onto the UK’s tax burden – already at the highest sustained level seen in peacetime – cannot be the answer.
For the sake of our bills as well as our security interests, we need to double down on homegrown green energy instead.
At the heart of the Midlands Engine’s strategy is a desire to collaborate, particularly in sectors vital to the low carbon transition.
Backing traditional industries is very far from the electoral liability that strategists fear.
Our choice will be between the de-growth agenda of the left, or one of innovation, creativity and technological advance.
We must address the challenge of climate change and the role that business can play in making our economy more sustainable.
Opponents are fighting on different fronts – some arguing about whether to do anything while others arguing about who pays for what we do.
We’re also doing outstanding research into green hydrogen, whose production can become increasingly affordable.
Palace Yard is a new cross-party policy and research institute that aims to help politicians get to grips with this country’s long-term challenges.