News Snapshot:
LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Britain needs a “proportionate and pragmatic” approach to net zero. So says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, reflecting his view that the UK should not let plans to decarbonise by 2050 swamp citizens with higher costs. Yet official UK figures do not suggest the way to get real on climate change is to go any slower. Fresh from a surprise local election victory in the London suburbs, which was helped by the Mayor of London’s unpopular plan to extend a low-emission zone for cars, Sunak’s Conservative Party seems to have become fixated on two numbers....
