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'Faster, and further': CBI calls for 'decade of climate action'

James Murray

04 November 2019 • 9 min read

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CBI Director-General Carolyn Fairbairn | Credit: CBI

As government formally launches review of the cost of meeting UK's net zero target, employers' body steps up call for bolder decarbonisation strategy

CBI Director-General Carolyn Fairbairn has today called on whoever forms the next government to move swiftly to develop a much more ambitious and coherent decarbonisation strategy for the next decade capable...

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