Government urged to heed external advice when drawing up net zero policies

Cecilia Keating
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Report from Institute for Government calls on Ministers to engage more extensively with external sources of evidence and analysis when designing energy policies, warning that departments have 'at times been too insular'

The government must shake up the way it collects evidence to inform net zero policies and consult a broader range of stakeholders if it wants to avoid costly policy failures, a new report from the Institute...

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