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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Peter Walker and Helena Horton

Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill

A boat race along the Thames outside the Houses of Parliament held to promote the environment bill
Climate campaigners, MPs, and ex-Olympians held a boat race along the Thames earlier this month to promote the bill. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Getty Images

A landmark bill that would make the UK’s climate and environment targets legally binding seems doomed after government whips ordered Labour MPs to oppose it following a breakdown in negotiations.

Supporters of the climate and nature bill, introduced by the Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage, say Labour insisted on the removal of clauses that would require the UK to meet the targets it agreed to at Cop and other international summits.

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