UK to miss legal climate targets without urgent action, official advisers warn
The UK will miss its legally binding carbon targets without urgent government action, official advisers have warned.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said vague ambitions, such as banning new petrol and diesel cars by 2040, must be turned into solid plans and new policies, such as planting more trees, are needed.
The CCC also warned that there are “significant” risks to the delivery of existing projects, such as the new Hinkley Point nuclear plant. However, the CCC also praised Theresa May’s government for putting green growth at the centre of the nation’s economic strategy for the first time when it published its Clean Growth Strategy (CGS) in October.
“There has been a very fundamental change of stance,” said Lord Deben, chair of the CCC. “But that, of course, doesn’t mean there is not a very great deal more to do. There is a real pressure and urgency.”
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