Only new fiscal rules will avoid a Budget carbon COP out
The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies
When the Prime Minister stood alongside our national treasure David Attenborough to launch the COP26 climate conference, there was a sense that we really were going to 'get net Zero done' by 2050. The...
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