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Britain PM Rishi Sunak rowing back on climate change measures

This comes in response to growing evidence that British voters resent shouldering the financial burdens of environmental protection measures. PHOTO: REUTERS
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LONDON – Successive British governments have boasted about their determination to lead Europe in efforts to tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions.

Prime Minister Theresa May, who governed from 2016 to 2019, enshrined the obligation to achieve carbon neutrality – the so-called net zero – by 2050.

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