UK off course for post 2020 carbon targets, CCC warns

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Committee on Climate Change's annual progress report says lack of certainty beyond 2020 is eroding the country's chance of meeting fourth carbon budget

The UK is in danger of missing its post-2020 climate change goals unless it strengthens low carbon policy and sets longer term targets, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) will say today. The independent...

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