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Is this simultaneously the greenest and dirtiest budget in recent history?

22 November 2017 • 8 min read

Pledges on EVs and plastic pollution are welcome, but Hammond has failed to accelerate a coal phase-out while gambling on further renewables' cost-reductions

What's better: a chancellor who slags off the green economy at every turn but then quietly enables a trebling in renewables capacity and deep cuts in emissions (albeit with his arm twisted by colleagues),...

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