Chancellor backtracks on green goals

14th October 2011


George Osborne has signalled a watering-down of government climate change policy by ruling out unilaterally setting carbon emissions targets that other countries refuse to adopt.

He also accused environmental regulations of “piling costs on the energy bills of households and companies”, and argued that the government should not adopt green targets that damage the business sect

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