Is Boris Johnson's climate plan enough for the UK to hit net zero?

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The UK’s 10-point climate plan includes a ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030

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It is late and riddled with holes. But UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s 10-point climate plan is still the first big step towards meeting the country’s target of net zero emissions by 2050 since it was set last year. Johnson claims the plan’s wide-ranging technological fixes amount to a “green industrial revolution” – but is it enough?

The headline policy of banning sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than planned, is …

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