Committee on Climate Change advises UK to meet carbon budget without offsets

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"Use of credits would substitute for appropriate domestic ambition"

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has today urged the government to aim to meet its second carbon budget through domestic actions alone and not through the use of offset credits. The CCC today wrote...

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