Report: UK's muddled web of carbon accounting 'not fit for a net zero future'

Michael Holder
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Report: UK's muddled web of carbon accounting 'not fit for a net zero future'

Energy Systems Catapult warns disjointed, inconsistent, and complex regulatory landscape risks hampering decision making and fuelling greenwashing

The UK's muddled and inconsistent regulatory landscape for carbon accounting and reporting threatens to muddy understanding of the UK's decarbonisation trajectory, heighten the risk of misleading 'greenwashing'...

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