We can’t afford to get carbon budgets wrong

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    James Hardy, Turner & Townsend

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    Carbon budgets are critical to reaching climate goals – they require debate, but must remain ambitious, writes Turner & Townsend’s James Hardy

    When the Climate Change Committee (CCC) was set up in 2008, its main purpose was to guide the process for setting UK carbon budgets that would drive long-term emissions reduction. Back then, the UK…

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