On 2 May 2019, the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (“CCC”) recommended that Parliament legislate, without delay, to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions to “net-zero” by 2050. The CCC is the UK Government’s chief climate change advisory body, and its previous recommendations have been implemented. It is possible that the new target could be enacted through legislation by late 2019 or early 2020.
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