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Climate change: Is the UK on track to meet its targets?
The UK has committed to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
Net zero is the point at which the country is taking as much of these climate-changing gases out of the atmosphere as it is putting in.
- By Reality Check team
- BBC News
As part of this promise, the government has a target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035, compared with 1990 levels.
But a group of experts that advises the government says Boris Johnson’s government has credible policies in place to deliver only about a fifth of this cut.
Power generation
Successive governments have been relatively successful in cutting emissions from energy – they fell by 40% between 1990 and…