Committee on Climate Change adds new expert members

Madeleine Cuff
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Professor Corinne Le Quéré from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and Professor Nick Chater from Warwick Business School become the latest members of influential government watchdog

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) yesterday appointed two new members to help its development of the UK's carbon budget proposals and oversee the government's work on emissions reductions. The two...

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