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MOST new cars and vans will have to be electric by 2030 if legal targets to cut greenhouse gases are to be met, the Committee on Climate Change warns in a new report published today.
The committee, an independent body set up by the 2008 Climate Change Act, said that the Tories have not gone far enough to meet statutory targets to cut greenhouse gases.
Committee chairman Lord Deben said car companies, oil and gas firms and housebuilders should “step up” and play a greater role in the shift to a green economy.
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
Lawyers to challenge approval of data centre in Britain that ‘pollutes on the scale of an international airport’
