Climate Change Act turns 10: Are the difficult teenage years on their way?

Michael Holder
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As the Climate Change Act turns 10, future battle lines are being drawn on aviation, agriculture and fracking

On the face of it, the event organised yesterday by Policy Exchange to mark 10 years of the Climate Change Act looked set to demonstrate that - even in these politically polarised times - cross-party consensus...

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