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    Robustly aiming for the bull

    Aug 26, 2021 4 minutes
    CHRISTOPHER SNOWDON

    BRITAIN IS A WORLD LEADER in setting targets for greenhouse gas emissions. They are legion. They are ambitious. They are rigorous. They are, in some barely comprehensible way, legally binding. In 2019, lame duck Prime Minister Theresa May not only pledged to make Britain a “net zero” emitter of carbon dioxide, but made it illegal for her successors to not achieve this. This legislation was so obviously sensible that MPs were relieved of the burden of having to vote for it.

    In 2020, Boris Johnson promised to cut carbon emissions by 68 per cent (compared to 1990 levels) by 2030, outflanking the feeble 57 per cent target set by girly swot

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