Rishi Sunak s Budget Puts Climate Targets In Jeopardy, Experts Warn
Boris Johnson s promised green recovery faces a major setback thanks to the government s financial priorities, say leading campaigners.
Rishi Sunak’s budget is “directly” moving the UK away from its climate targets, experts in environmental policy have warned.
While the chancellor emphasised a raft of new green financial policies in his Wednesday address, he has been warned that the impact of schemes such as the “super-reduction”, which encourages business to invest in return for a big tax bill cut, and the fuel duty freeze is steering the nation even further from its much-vaunted environmental goals.
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Some may be impressed with the tax increases and large figures pledged in the Chancellor's budget but even a cursory look shows that it does little to abolish poverty for our heroic front-line workers and lots to transfer the cost of the pandemic onto the working class, writes ROBERT GRIFFITHS