Four charts that show how the UK stacks up on climate change
by Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#4EA9Y)
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Should the UK declare a "climate emergency" that would inform public policy and the national budget? The question was been debated in parliament on Wednesday, with the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn declaring the government should "embrace hope" through stronger actions on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environment secretary, Michael Gove, calling the problem of climate change "an emergency".
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