Essay by Eric Worrall
But a majority still say Net Zero should be achieved by 2050 or earlier.
UK Urgency on Net Zero, Climate Support Plummets
King’s College London
Public support for UK reaching net zero by 2050 is waningRead the research
declining-urgency-enduring-support-public-attitudes-to-net-zero-and-climate-policy (1.04MB pdf)
The share of the UK public who say the country needs to reduce carbon emissions to net zero sooner than 2050 has nearly halved since 2021, according to a major new study.
29% of the public now say the UK should achieve net zero before the government’s 2050 target – down from 54% in 2021, when this question was last asked.
The proportion who feel the UK either doesn’t need to reach net zero by 2050 or shouldn’t have a net zero target at all has risen from 9% to 26% over the same period.
But despite this declining sense of urgency, a significant majority (64%) still believe the government’s target for net zero should be at least 2050, if not earlier.
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Read more: https://www.miragenews.com/uk-urgency-on-net-zero-climate-support-plummets-1618630/
From the Kings College London Report;
Declining urgency, enduring support
Public attitudes to net zero and climate policy
Contact: bobby.duffy@kcl.ac.uk | gideon.skinner@ipsos.com
February 2026Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
1. The urgency of achieving net zero
While the aim of getting to net zero still commands wide public support, the proportion of people viewing it as an urgent priority has fallen sharply.
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The belief that the UK needs to achieve net zero sooner than 2050 is no longer the majority view among young and middle-aged people, but older people are now most sceptical
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Read more: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/declining-urgency-enduring-support-public-attitudes-to-net-zero-and-climate-policy.pdf
The entire study is well worth a read, its only 38 pages long, and the information is well presented, with lots of informative graphs.
The report contains some interesting hi-lights.
Support among green party voters has dropped substantially for key net zero policies like low traffic neighbourhoods, taxes on flying, EV subsidies and high carbon food taxes.
Older people are far more skeptical of pretty much every green policy dimension. If it was up to older people, Net Zero would be over. But there is still solid support amongst young people.
A substantial number of Reform voters (26%) support Net zero by 2050, surprising given Farage’s open climate skepticism. Perhaps Farage is appealing to them on other issues.
The study contains some interesting comparisons between US attitudes and British attitudes towards Net Zero. Unsurprisingly the USA is far more skeptical than Britain.
The study authors didn’t provide a list of questions in their report, though the survey was conducted independently by Ipsos. I’d have preferred more detail in the study details section on page 38, but it looks like they made an effort to produce unbiased results.
What can I say? This survey is both exciting and disappointing. It’s great to see the solid wall of BBC climate brainwashing is starting to crack under the strain of Milliband’s disastrous Net Zero policies, though I feel sorry for people caught up in the consequences of Net Zero through no fault of their own. It’s sad that a majority of people still appear to support Net Zero, even after years of hardship.
Change is coming – but Britain is out of time. Over the last 26 years industrial output has halved as a share of GDP. Britain is no longer a nation which manufactures its own needs.
A lack of domestic manufacturing capacity and failure to develop domestic energy resources such as the trillion cubic feet of frackable gas sitting under Lancashire, with even more gas recently discovered under Lincolnshire, fully exposes Britain to global supply and price shocks.
Any further decline in the British economy, a near certainty under Mad Miliband’s net zero policies, will drive up inflation, and force British politicians to choose between brutal interest rate hikes or economy killing 1970s style stagflation. Things will get worse before they get better.
