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Alok Sharma: 'Climate must be at the heart of everything that we do'

Business Green

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. Our global political economy, built on fossil fuels for the last century, is in a state of flux. The plant I visited, Olkaria, was already producing 1 gigawatt of power.

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Next Prime Minister to face legal requirement to beef up Net Zero Strategy

Business Green

Moreover, the ruling comes just weeks after the Climate Change Committee (CCC) published an in-depth progress report warning how on multiple fronts the UK is not on track to meet its emissions goals for the 2030s, and arguing that urgent action is needed to introduce new policies and investments that can accelerate decarbonisation efforts.