UK is failing to meet almost all of its climate action targets

By Michael Le Page

THE UK is failing to tackle climate change on almost all key measures of success, according to the Committee on Climate Change.

This organisation advises the UK government on how to meet its legally binding target of cutting carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. As schoolchildren took to the streets to protest the UK’s lack of climate action on 15 February, the committee set out a dire picture of the country’s climate policies in a letter to Claire Perry, UK minister for energy and clean growth.

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