Ending UK’s climate emissions ‘affordable’, say official advisers

CCC recommendation includes half of cars being electric by 2030, gas boilers phased out and 10,000 wind turbines

• What does the UK's climate plan entail?

The world's first detailed route map to ending a nation's use of fossil fuels is both ambitious and affordable", according to the UK government's official advisers, and would see half of the cars on the road being electric by 2030 and 10,000 giant wind turbines in the North Sea.

The Climate Change Committee's analysis found that the future cost savings from no longer having to buy oil and gas almost offsets the 50bn-a-year investment needed in low-carbon power, transport and home heating across the next three decades.