Climate change Bill proposes five-yearly \"carbon budgets\"

March 13, 2007
The government has today published a climate change Bill, which seeks to enshrine in law its plan to reduce the UK’s carbon emissions by 60% by 2050. The draft Bill sets out plans for a system of five-yearly "carbon budgets," rather than the annual targets touted by the Conservatives, which the government has branded "inflexible." The budgets will give businesses …

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