What does he mean by a ‘more proportionate’ approach to net zero? What exact policies would he scrap? How much higher would he want emissions to be? Which clean tech sector would he like to slow the development of? How much more would have to be spent on climate resilience? 
There’s an entire strain of modern Conservatism that is defined by nothing so much as whining about things it doesn’t like and denying objective reality. It has literally nothing constructive to offer beyond wishful thinking and the abdication of responsibility.
BTW there is an obvious policy agenda that could fit with Frost and co’s ‘proportionate’ response to net zero and I don’t doubt eventually they’ll land on it to give them some cover. It’ll be ‘let’s sit here and wait for technology to save us’.
The problem is this approach is staggeringly high risk, given the climate impacts that will follow if the gamble doesn’t pay off. And they have no credibility making it given over the past decade they’ve had nothing to say about CCS, next gen nuclear, direct air capture, etc, etc
Basically, still this, sadly. businessgreen.com/blog-post/4035…
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