As the UK prepares its next carbon budget, what needs to be included?

Rachel Reeves alarmed campaigners by asserting that planning reforms would let developers ‘focus on getting things built and stop worrying over the bats and the newts’. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Labour will next week be confronted with stark policy choices that threaten to expose the fault lines between the Treasury and the government’s green ambitions, as advice for the UK’s next carbon budget is published.

Plans for the energy sector, housing, transport, industry and farming will all be called into question in a sweeping set of recommendations for how the UK can meet the legally binding target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.