00:00Kimi Bey not gave a speech earlier this year where she said, look, we've got to be realistic.
00:04Net zero by 2050 is not going to be achievable.
00:08The world's two largest economies, the US and China, are not pursuing net zero.
00:14And we contribute, I think, about 1% of global emissions,
00:18and that there is a real danger that all we're going to do in pursuing the 2050 target
00:23is put additional costs on businesses and on families and on public services
00:27whilst having an absolutely minimal impact on global emissions.
00:32What we should be doing is using our own oil and gas in order,
00:37rather than importing oil and gas from other countries, we should get that revenue,
00:40we should get those jobs, we should protect communities like the one in Aberdeen
00:45that Kimi will be visiting this week, whilst we're on a longer-term transition
00:49to a decarbonised economy, which we all know we're going to get to eventually.
00:52The question is the pace and protecting the British economy in the meantime.
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