Lib Dems vow to double green energy production for a 'Zero Carbon Britain'

Will Nichols
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Party plans to introduce Zero Carbon Bill that would 'end UK's adverse impact on climate change'

The Liberal Democrats have set out ambitious plans to double the UK's production of renewable energy by the end of the decade and make the country entirely carbon neutral by 2050. The ambitious new...

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