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Lack of long-term planning is jeopardising government's net-zero target
Diesel fuel is pumped into a car at a petrol station near Knutsford, in Cheshire

A LACK of long-term planning from the government risks jeopardising Britain achieving its legally mandated 2050 net-zero target, MPs have warned.

The Commons’ public accounts committee says the government did not consider what levels of long-term investment might be required up to 2050 to support net-zero technologies when it set out timescales for their development in 2021.

In a report published today, the committee says that too often the plans for supporting the advance of these technologies have been short-term, putting at risk the large amounts of private investment needed to achieve net zero by 2050.

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