carbon capture

It says the focus should instead be on emerging technologies such as carbon capture and storage and nuclear fusion - and new international effort to persuade the world's biggest economies, such as China and India, to cut their emissions.

The report calls for the rapid deployment of carbon capture and storage technology, greater use of AI to make energy grids efficient and investment in small scale nuclear reactors.

Reacting in the Commons to Sir Tony's comments in the report, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said he agreed "with a lot of what it says" particularly on carbon capture and storage and AI "which the government are doing".

He has also called for investment in technologies like carbon capture.

SMRs are just one of several wildly overhyped false promises on which the world is poised to spend hundreds of billions of dollars by 2040, including hydrogen energy and direct air carbon capture.