EU delays vote on move to 30 per cent emissions cuts

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Decision now slated for early July

It was the vote that DECC ministers and green groups had been hoping would crank up the EU's drive to reduce carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2020. But yesterday the European Parliament delayed a...

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