Speeches by Onn.

“Making things easier and accessible across the piece is a way of trying to keep the support there. Thank you.”

“In terms of people’s sympathies or their positive attitude towards clean energies, net zero policies and opportunities, is that impacted in an environment at the moment where we are seeing job losses as a backdrop in energy, with a bit of a delay in clean technologies? Technologies—like carbon capture and storage—are n…”

“So talking about the Climate Change Committee and the work that it has been involved in, and the phrase “carbon budgets”, I am intrigued to know, what are the alternatives? Net zero? You made the point that using net zero is the kiss of death on anything.”

“What would Rebecca have been better off using instead of “carbon budgets”?”

“A comment on that. It feels like design by committee, and that lacks leadership. You could end up in a smorgasbord of indecision as everybody equally plumps for different options and it becomes stalling rather than enabling, empowering, and moving things on at speed.”

“The term “carbon budgets” has been used twice in the evidence that we have had, and you hate that phrase.”

“Like I said, I think we have answered that question, but I do want to go to the integrity of journalism.”

“A comment on that. It feels like design by committee, and that lacks leadership. You could end up in a smorgasbord of indecision as everybody equally plumps for different options and it becomes stalling rather than enabling, empowering, and moving things on at speed.”

“It is not a misrepresentation when the takeaways are that, from that report.”

“Earlier in the evidence session you were saying about information being selective, incomplete, misleading. To what end? What is the purpose behind that misinformation? What do the individuals who do that gain from it in your view or is it unintentional?”

“Yes.”

“I do not think that is true. I genuinely do not think that is true, I have to say. I think that was a piece of information that has stuck with people.”

“It is not a misrepresentation when the takeaways are that, from that report.”

“It is a paraphrase of what people—”

“Thank you. I wondered if part of the problem with the Climate Change Committee—not only the fact that it has “climate change” in the title—is it is seen as being a bit preachy. When it came out with its first report it basically told people, “You can’t eat burgers”—there are lots of things that you do in your normal li…”

“We are talking about a positive there, aren’t we, Chair? We are imposing positive benefits, not negative.”

“Making things easier and accessible across the piece is a way of trying to keep the support there. Thank you.”

“In terms of people’s sympathies or their positive attitude towards clean energies, net zero policies and opportunities, is that impacted in an environment at the moment where we are seeing job losses as a backdrop in energy, with a bit of a delay in clean technologies? Technologies—like carbon capture and storage—are n…”

“So talking about the Climate Change Committee and the work that it has been involved in, and the phrase “carbon budgets”, I am intrigued to know, what are the alternatives? Net zero? You made the point that using net zero is the kiss of death on anything.”

“What would Rebecca have been better off using instead of “carbon budgets”?”