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'A recipe for climate optimism': CCC plots course for net zero UK emissions by 2050

02 May 2019 • 11 min read

Committee on Climate Change urges government to adopt a net zero greenhouse gas emissions target for 2050 'as soon as possible'

The UK should aim for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, effectively ending the world's first industrialised nation's contribution to global warming in the next three decades through the deployment...

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