ECIU: Agriculture could be UK's biggest carbon emitter by mid-2030s

Stuart Stone
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UK's farms and land could be emitting more greenhouse gas than its power stations in just a decade's time, think tank analysis claims

Progress on tackling emissions from farming and land use is lagging behind other sectors to the extent the sector could be the UK's biggest source of emissions by the mid-2030s. That is according to...

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