Government urged to deliver 'bold and fair' climate action plan

James Murray
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Credit: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
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Credit: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

With less than 100 days until the deadline for the government to update the UK's national climate action plan, campaigners, trade unions, and businesses have called on Ministers to ramp up decarbonisation efforts

A group of over 50 businesses, trade unions, and civil society groups have today written to Prime Minister Keir Starmer urging him to deliver a "bold and fair" climate action plan, ahead of a legal deadline...

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