Government agrees to be more open about embedded carbon

Jessica Shankleman
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DECC, BIS, and Defra respond to MPs report on consumption-based emissions

The government has agreed to be more transparent about the negative environmental impact of imported goods, but stopped short of agreeing to boost efforts to tackle the problem of so-called "embedded emissions"...

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