'The country's 2030 emissions reduction target is at risk': The green economy reacts to the CCC's climate progress report

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Business groups and environmental campaigners react to the Climate Change Committee's verdict on progress towards UK decarbonisation targets

Plans set out by the previous government will not deliver enough action to guide the UK towards net zero, today's latest progress assessment from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has warned. UK territorial...

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