This is very interesting and potentially important - the Climate Change Committee takes issue with the argument of the Treasury in its Net Zero Review that decarbonisation investments should NOT be financed from public borrowing... theccc.org.uk/publication/in… 
...As the CCC says, future generations benefit from decarbonisation so reasonable for them (rather than solely current taxpayers) to pay part of the cost through higher borrowing with interest bill spread across coming decades...
....Plus - Sunak's "Green Gilts" = funding decarbonisation through borrowing
...Why could this be important?
If the government's preferred approach of relying heavily on private investment rather than public investment to decarbonise stalls (see heat pumps) there will be pressure for more public spending in the mix...
If the government's preferred approach of relying heavily on private investment rather than public investment to decarbonise stalls (see heat pumps) there will be pressure for more public spending in the mix...
...the question of whether that should involve tax rises (as per Treasury analysis) or public borrowing (as per CCC analysis) could easily become a live one - and the economics of that question would come to the fore.
...Risk of that public-spending light domestic heating plan stalling explicitly flagged by the Committee:
...note that those concerns seem to be shared by the OBR too:
https://twitter.com/BenChu_/status/1454033748828299265?s=20
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