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Our climate editorjustin rowlatt is in cardiff. we heard a lot of promises from borisjohnson in the run up to the big climate conference in glasgow last year about britain reaching its carbon net zero targets, so does today s announcement help get us there? there certainly were. we are actually doing quite well in terms of cutting emissions compare to other countries. emissions are down 40% since 1990, the biggest reduction of any g20 country. how have we done it? mostly by getting coal out of the system. back in 1990, 80% of our power came from coal and now it is a small 2% were stopped renewables have increased massively, barely existing in 1990 and now they are 26% of electricity generation, more than a quarter. as simon was saying, this announcement today creates extra momentum for decarbonising the electricity sector. nuclear, offshore wind and some solar will definitely help decarbonise. looking at what the climate change committee, the government s advises on the climate ....

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