All the key recommendations from the CCC's Sixth Carbon Budget report: At a glance

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Lord Deben described the CCC's net zero roadmap as "the most detailed that anyone has ever done"
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Lord Deben described the CCC's net zero roadmap as "the most detailed that anyone has ever done"

BusinessGreen rounds up all the crucial findings in the Climate Change Committee's mammoth 450 page report on how to meet the UK's carbon targets

In what it has claimed as a "world first", the Climate Change Committee (CCC) today submitted its hotly-anticipated Sixth Carbon Budget advice to the government, setting out how to deliver both short term...

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