Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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With the UK general election tomorrow, the Cleaning Up team sits down with Dr Simon Evans of Carbon Brief to run through each party's manifesto, and what they say about UK climate and energy policy. With Labour widely predicted to win, will the UK's become an international leader on climate once more? How will GB Energy work? And where will all the money come from to fund the investments needed to turn the UK into a clean energy power house.

Dr Evans is the deputy editor and senior policy editor at Carbon Brief, a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy.

Read more:
• Carbon Brief: carbonbrief.org
• Cleaning Up with Tzeporah Berman: youtube.com/watch?v=eB_WmXgFxtg
• Cleaning Up with Bryony Worthington: youtube.com/watch?v=RfMDUcFGNmA
• The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Initiative: fossilfueltreaty.org
• The Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance: beyondoilandgasalliance.org
• Cleaning Up with Claire O'Neill: youtube.com/watch?v=qK7tVA4JKI0

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:48 - UK Climate Policy History
10:22 - Simon & Carbon Brief
12:03 - Conservative Manifesto & Climate
19:00 - North Sea Oil & Gas
21:48 - Labour Manifesto & Climate
27:07 - Lib Dems
29:14 - The Greens
35:04 - Reform & Climate
37:30 - The SNP & Scottish Wind
44:01 - UK as International Climate Leader
49:26 - Locational Pricing
54:42 - Decarbonising Transport
59:05 - The Spectre of Hydrogen
01:02:00 - GB Energy & Finance
01:13:08 - Outro