Climate Change Committee warns UK has 'lost' its global net zero leadership position

Climate Change Committee

Annual progress report warns government's official advisors have 'markedly less' confidence in the UK's ability to meet its decarbonisation targets from 2030 onwards.

Confidence in the UK meeting its legally-binding decarbonisation targets from 2030 onwards has fallen "markedly", the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has today warned in a landmark report that delivers a damning verdict on the paucity of new climate action from the government over the past 12 months. The CCC's annual progress report, published today, warns the government has missed numerous key opportunities to make much-needed progress on a host of critical climate policy areas over the past year. It concludes that as a result the government now faces a huge uphill challenge to attrac...