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Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill

Sadly, I do not, because—as I have tried to explain—I have a jaundiced view of targets and I favour the idea that if a target is set, but turns out to be so wide of the mark that it is useless, it makes sense to give the Secretary of State an escape hatch. If the Secretary of State were honest, he could say, ““I have tried this approach. It patently did not work, so I shall not indulge in this pretence or self-delusion any longer.”” I do not want to force Secretaries of State to have meaningless targets. That is what I am trying to say. From that point of view, perhaps to my hon. Friend’s surprise, I accept that these provisions should remain in the Bill. I do not think we should get ourselves so caught up in this frantic frenzy of people falling over one another to say, ““I believe in climate change more than you and I am going to do more than you to solve it.”” It is a problem that we cannot measure, that may or may not happen, and that is so far in the future that it is of little or no relevance to this generation or the next. To start to formulate policies to try to meet—