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UK renewables cuts 'risk slowing shift to clean energy'

2016-05-24 12:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The UK government risks slowing the shift to clean energy sources by cutting support for renewable energy and strongly backing gas as a transitional fuel, according to the UNs environment chief. Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told the Guardian that he thought the UKs push for nuclear and gas over renewables could be more costly in the long term. His warning came as North Yorkshire council gave the go ahead for the first fracking tests in the UK for...

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