Green Alliance: UK not on track to meet net zero targets

Cecilia Keating
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As ministers prepare updated Net Zero Strategy, think tank warns less than a third of policies required to meet fifth carbon budget have been enacted

The government is not on track to meet either its medium term emissions targets or its net zero by 2050 goal due to a lack of action and policy delivery, Green Alliance has this afternoon warned. The...

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