Described as a “litmus test” on the climate crisis, the Budget today will have to break with the past quite dramatically to show ministers are serious about taking action.
The Committee on Climate Change, the statutory body that advises the UK government on its climate change policy, says the UK is on course to miss its next milestone and that “policy ambition and implementation now fall well short of what is required”.
There’s another problem: that milestone is for the old target, an 80 per cent reduction in emissions by 2050, rather than the new one of net zero by the same date. Britain is even further behind on the new target.
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