THE government is refusing to release details on how policies in its Net Zero strategy will cut emissions. 

Ministers published the Net Zero Strategy in October, ahead of the Cop26 climate summit, laying out how Britain aims to reach its legally binding commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

It includes measures such as fitting new electric car charges, boosting offshore wind and planting more woodlands. 

But a spreadsheet which detailed the projected emissions reductions from the policies has not been made public. 

A request for the spreadsheet by the Press Association news agency has now been rejected by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). 

It said it was an internal document, concluding that the public interest does not outweigh the need to keep the information private. 

Greenpeace executive director John Sauven accused the government of “behaving like a shady dealer asking customers to buy a product without seeing it first.”

Shadow climate change and net zero secretary Ed Miliband also questioned the credibility of the plans. 

“A strategy without numbers showing that the government’s targets will actually be delivered isn’t worth the paper it’s written on,” he slammed.

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas also warned that secrecy around the strategy fuels suspicions that “we are being sold a plan that doesn’t add up.”

A Beis spokesperson insisted that there was nothing secretive about the strategy. 

But War on Want executive director Asad Rehman told the Morning Star that the secrecy underlined an “increasingly anti-democratic approach — a lack of transparency coupled with a clampdown on the right to protest.

“To tackle the urgency of the climate crisis we need real zero – not net zero – strategies. Net zero strategies are inherently flawed as they effectively greenwash a business-as-usual approach, rather than keeping fossil fuels in the ground,” he added.