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27 April 2016 • 4 min read

'We can see no basis for downgrading the UK's ambition to reduce emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases'

The Energy and Climate Change (ECC) committee today called for ministers to accept the proposals made by the government's climate advisors, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), for the level of decarbonisation...

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