Achieving the targets of the UK Climate Change Act is a necessity for our children

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Professor Russell Viner of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health argues that delivering on the goals of the Climate Change Act would result in cleaner air and lower health risks for children

Our children, born and yet to be born, are the future; a thing to nurture and to protect. A decade ago, when today's ten-year-olds took their first breaths, the UK introduced the world's first ‘Climate...

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