The UK Government will introduce emissions limits for the power industry starting from next year. Companies will need to reduce their emissions in line with the country’s 2050 net-zero targets. The reforms, announced by the UK Emissions Trading Scheme Authority (UK ETS Authority) on 3 July, ...
The government is likely to miss its targets for reducing emissions to net zero by 2050, a parliamentary committee has warned today. The government is also being urged by the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee to explain how the transition to net zero will be funded. The UK has...
In other words, Sunak’s claimed efforts to put public interest before government targets arelikely to cause more long-term harm than goodfor both people and the planet. The call for Sunak to stick to net zero targets is unignorable
According to the UK Government, over the past decade, the UK has cut carbon emissions by more than any similar developed country and was the first major economy to legislate for net-zero emissions by 2050. “We have proven we can reduce our emissions and create hundreds of thousands of jobs...
While Chester Zoo has already started working towards its ambitious 2030 target, other businesses across the UK are unsure about what steps they need to take to meet the government's target of being net zero by 2050. Bev Carnaby, director of the UK Corporate Leaders Group, sai...
The UK government on Thursday announced plans for what it said was the country's "biggest expansion of nuclear power for 70 years" to bolster its energy independence and meet carbon emission targets.
Storage requirements on this scale are not currently foreseen by the government. Work on constructing these caverns should begin immediately if the government is to have any chance of meeting its net zero targets, the report states. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS, lead author of the report, said...
The Confederation of British Industry said the report “mark[s] a new dawn for climate change action in the UK”, and called on the government to support and enact the target in a timely fashion. But climate protesters, who have called for a net zero target of 2025, dismissed it...
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The UK’s new net zero strategy will fail to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to hit its own legally enforceable targets, the government has admitted, with environmental analysts and politicians criticising the plans unveiled on Thursday as incoherent. Ministers were forced to publish a raft of ...