Britain’s Net Zero targets are pushing it towards Chinese technology that is made with forced labour and contains security risks, a report has warned.
A major audit found that China dominates the production of wind turbines and solar panels as well as the components for electric car batteries.
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) said there is ‘substantial evidence’ of state-sponsored forced labour in the ‘EV and renewable energy supply chains’, as well as dangerous software vulnerabilities in the equipment.
‘Climate targets as set will not be met without cooperation with China, and accepting medium-term dependence,’ its report stated.
‘This means accepting supply chains
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