After net zero, we will need to go much further and clean up historic emissions

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Tim Kruger from the University of Oxford explores how the trend for tackling historic emissions is going to have to expand - and fast

As the G7 summit reiterated, all the group's members are now firmly committed to achieving net zero by 2050. This is quite a turnaround from just two years ago when the UK became the first major economy...

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