Zero: The Climate Race Zack Polanski’s plan to tax billionaires and make energy affordable
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Mar 26, 2026 
Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party in England and Wales and a climate-focused politician, outlines plans to cut bills, expand renewables and retrofit homes. He discusses taxing unearned wealth to fund relief, rethinking security to include climate and cyber risks, and boosting local energy, public ownership and green manufacturing through mission-led policy.
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Insulate Homes To Cut Bills And Emissions
- Climate policy must be integrated across housing, work and adaptation to reduce both bills and emissions.
- Polanski stresses insulating Britain’s leaky homes as a job-creating climate and cost-of-living solution with hundreds of thousands of green jobs.
Use Short Term Caps And Rising Block Tariffs
- Do cap household bills short term and consider a rising block tariff so essential consumption is low-cost or free.
- Polanski suggested setting aside funds to stop bills rising above the current energy cap and designing thresholds for fairness.
Fund Energy Relief By Taxing Wealth Gains
- Do raise capital gains tax to match income tax to fund targeted energy subsidies without borrowing.
- Zack Polanski proposes using higher capital gains revenues to cover an £8.4bn support pot preventing bill rises rather than new borrowing.