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Labour’s shadow environment secretary has stated that the Party would deliver on the UK’s commitment to protect at least 30% of the land and sea by 2030, in the same week that investors published new benchmarking tools to assess corporate approaches to nature and biodiversity.
The government is not moving fast enough to get people to switch over to electric vehicles (EVs), which puts legally binding net zero targets at risk, peers on the House of Lords’ Environment and Climate Change Committee have said.
The House of Lords has called on the government to slash VAT on public electric vehicle charging from 20% to 5%, as domestic charging.
Baroness Kate Parminter, chair of the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee (and a Nissan Leaf driver), writes exclusively for Auto Express following its inquiry into the UK’s EV strategy
Environment and Climate Change Committee warns more needs to be done to bring down cost of EVs relative to petrol and diesel cars and accelerate the national charge point roll out