Report warns half of UK industrial emissions risk being overlooked in net zero policy drive

Stuart Stone
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Hundreds of thousands of UK jobs in factories, breweries and manufacturing sites could be 'on the line' thanks to dearth of net zero policy from the government, warns Association for Decentralised Energy

Around half of the UK's industrial emissions are being ignored in the race to net zero, which could put as many as 770,000 jobs at risk, the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) has warned. Government...

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