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U.K. Retains Target to Cut Carbon Emissions in Half

The U.K. will keep a target to cut greenhouse gases by half through 2025, Energy Secretary Ed Davey said, foiling the Treasury’s effort to weaken the target.

Revising the so-called carbon budget would be premature, given that the government’s estimate of the U.K. and EU levels of ambition on carbon-cutting “are likely to be extremely close,” Davey said today in a statement to Parliament.