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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

UK missing climate targets on nearly every front, say government’s advisers

Solar farm adjacent to a wind farm
The installation of wind and solar farms is still too slow to meet net zero, according to the Committee on Climate Change. Photograph: Paul White/UK Industries/Alamy

The government’s plans to hit net zero have been comprehensively criticised in a withering report by its own advisers that says targets are being missed on nearly every front.

Fewer homes were insulated last year under the government-backed scheme than the year before, despite soaring energy bills and a cost of living crisis. There is little progress on transport emissions, no coherent programme for behaviour change, and still no decision on hydrogen for home heating.

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