Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan: Five key takeaways

Michael Holder
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From home heating strategies and aviation blindspots to methane action plans and energy cost concerns, the government's sweeping new climate action plan contains plenty for businesses to consider

As one might expect from a strategy that attempts to map out the decarbonisation of one of the world's largest economies in the space of a couple of decades, the government's new Carbon Budget and Growth...

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