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MOST new cars and vans will have to be electric by 2030 if legal targets to cut greenhouse gases are to be met, the Committee on Climate Change warns in a new report published today.
The committee, an independent body set up by the 2008 Climate Change Act, said that the Tories have not gone far enough to meet statutory targets to cut greenhouse gases.
Committee chairman Lord Deben said car companies, oil and gas firms and housebuilders should “step up” and play a greater role in the shift to a green economy.
The glacier collapse in Nepal is yet another warning that a warming planet is making Himalayan disasters more frequent and destructive – but the countries facing the greatest risks are often those least responsible, says LI YANG
In the third of a four-part serialisation from her new book No to Nuclear, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER explains how the world had a chance to build an energy system around renewables more than 70 years ago — instead, it chose nuclear
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
Lawyers to challenge approval of data centre in Britain that ‘pollutes on the scale of an international airport’