Budget ‘doesn’t add up’ to secure a green future – WWF analysis
Support us and go ad-freeOnly a tiny fraction of this year’s Budget was for new policies to tackle climate change – with much more focused on measures that could push up emissions, analysis finds. Fiddling while the world burns A new Budget tagging tool from environmental charity WWF warns the government is not delivering on its climate promises – such as cutting emissions by 78% by 2035 and to zero overall by mid-century. Figures from the new tool, which is being developed to assess if financial flows are consistent with reaching the “net zero” goal by 2050, show that new climate tackling policies and announcements in the March…
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11 August 2021
