Not all that rosy in the climate policy garden

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Labour's Alan Whitehead argues the CCC's politely worded warnings about the weaknesses in UK climate policy demands an urgent and ambitious response from government

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the body tasked with producing our national carbon budgets and monitoring our progress in achieving them, last week produced its response to the government's Clean...

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