Report: UK should retain carbon price floor… for now

Policy Exchange paper argues Treasury should stick with carbon price floor until coal is fully forced off the grid

James Murray
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Policy Exchange has become the latest organisation to call for the retention of the UK's carbon price floor ahead of next week's Autumn Statement, arguing changes to the policy would seriously undermine...

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