We must close the loopholes in Britain's carbon budget | Damien Morris

This is our opportunity to fix the accounting rules and keep national emissions within UK carbon budgets

Last month the government made a landmark decision to reduce the UK's greenhouse gas emissions to zero sometime this century. This makes Britain the first country to commit to one of the key pledges in the Paris climate agreement reached last December.

This decision was prompted by a tireless, non-partisan campaign led by former Labour leader Ed Miliband, the UK's first ever secretary of state for energy and climate change. Securing this commitment is an important new climate milestone for Miliband, who played a key role in establishing the UK Climate Change Act when he was in government.