The UK could announce next month billions of U.S. dollars of additional spending on supporting its net-zero targets as part of a broad budget of $83 billion (£60 billion), Goldman Sachs says. The UK, the first developed nation to enshrine a net-zero by 2050 target into law, wants to lead the world in tackling the effects of climate change and preparing the business and industries for low-carbon energy. Due to a lower budget deficit earlier this year, the UK could announce more spending in the fall budget announcement next month, Steffan Ball, Goldman Sachs’s chief UK economist, wrote in a note carried by Bloomberg . “We expect Prime Minister [Boris] Johnson and Chancellor Sunak to take advantage of this headroom, given they have both the political incentive and the parliamentary support to make substantial progress on the ‘leveling-up’ agenda,” Ball wrote. As much as $41.5 billion (£30 billion) of […]