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United Kingdom: Decarbonisation target narrowly defeated in House of Lords vote

2013-10-29 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: The government avoided a House of Lords rebellion last night as peers voted by 216 to 202 to defeat an amendment to the Energy Bill that would have required it to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector next year. Green businesses and campaigners had hoped that the amendment, put forward by cross-bench peers Lord Stern and Lord Oxburgh and Labour shadow climate minister Baroness Worthington, could pass with a relatively small rebellion from the government benches. But despite...

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