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Britain Is Giving Citizens a Chance to Shape the Climate Fight

An assembly of 110 people will recommend policies to aim for net-zero emissions by 2050.

Climate assembly members in Birmingham, U.K. — Climate assembly members in Birmingham, U.K.
Photo: Fabio De Paola/PA Wire

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January 27, 2020, 10:45 AM UTC

The U.K. is offering 110 people a chance to shape the way the country attempts to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

The past weekend marked the start of a citizens’ assembly focused on climate, which will meet in the Midlands city of Birmingham on three more weekends over the next two months. The assembly will discuss and debate how the government should meet its legally mandated climate goal, which Parliament set in June 2019.