'A year of slow progress': How policy gaps continue to dog UK's net zero transition

Cecilia Keating
clock • 9 min read
Vattenfall's Horns Rev 3 wind farm in the North Sea | Credit: Vattenfall
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Vattenfall's Horns Rev 3 wind farm in the North Sea | Credit: Vattenfall

New reports from Aldersgate Group and National Infrastructure Commission warn government needs to explain how it plans deliver and fund a wave of low carbon industry, transport, and energy projects

The government has a lot on its mind currently, but that has not stopped the latest in a series of warnings that its flagship Net Zero Strategy will fail to deliver on its goals unless a raft of new policy...

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