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Britons still buying EVs, heat pumps and solar panels despite attacks on green agenda
Uptake of electric vehicles, solar panels and heat pumps and commitment to vegetarian diets remain strong - and in some cases is accelerating - even in the face of political attacks on climate policies, Sky News has found.
And fresh polling by YouGov, carried out exclusively for Sky News, also found that belief in and concern about man-made global warming remain as high as in their heyday in 2021, when the UK hosted the COP26 climate summit. However, policies that come with cost or disruption appear to be shedding popularity in the polls, reflecting a split in Westminster about whether to sell net zero as the answer to or the reason for cash-strapped Britain's woes.
Worried that both the public and right-leaning parties were falling out of love with net zero, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer dithered over whether to join leaders for climate talks in Brazil this year. But he will today meet with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and around 60 other leaders in the Amazonian city of Belem, ahead of the UN COP30 summit that begins on Monday.
The YouGov poll found 65% of adults remain "very" or "fairly worried" about climate change and its effects. And 71% still think humans are to blame.
In an interview ahead of COP30, Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice, who previously said man-made climate change was "garbage.
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