Climate strategy needs greater ambition for industry

Climate strategy needs greater ambition for industry
Gavin Evans
Words like “ambitious and “challenging” were used to describe the Climate Change Commission’s draft emission targets this week.That is no bad thing. I hope the proposed national energy and national industry strategies will be similarly ambitious and challenging.They may prove the most important steps in the next stage of climate policy development. Low-emission options for households and businesses are improving all the time, particularly in transport. We already have a highly productive forestry sector and a good u...

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