Despite lobbying from UK business leaders and EEF, the coalition's ‘green voice’ has won, with a new government commitment to halving carbon emissions at 1990 levels by 2025.
The agreement is legally binding and goes beyond what any other nation has agreed to previously. Britain is now the only country in the world to have set out its plan for carbon emissions targets beyond 2020. The Climate Change Act has already put in place targets to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050,…
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