UK tightens carbon budgets for Emissions Trading Scheme from 2024

Cecilia Keating
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The Saltend Chemicals Park | Credit: PX Groups
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The Saltend Chemicals Park | Credit: PX Groups

Carbon trading scheme set to be expanded to domestic maritime transport and waste sectors in second half of 2020s, government confirms

The power, industrial, and aviation industries will face more stringent limits on their emissions from 2024, under a string of reforms to the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) announced this morning by...

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