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Decarbonising industry can’t wait for ‘technologies of tomorrow’, says Tory MP

Source: PA Archive

The UK should not wait for the “technologies of tomorrow” to decarbonise its industries, the net zero tsar has said.

Conservative MP Chris Skidmore said the UK’s industrial emissions could be more than halved using technology available “today, right at our fingertips” as he launched a series of proposals for helping industry reach net zero.

Mr Skidmore said: “Eighty per cent of the UK’s

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