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A new plan aims for at least 68% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade, compared to 1990 levels.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
COP26 President Alok Sharma at the 'Presidency’s Open Dialogue between representatives of Observers and Parties' at the UN Climate Change Dialogues.
Letter from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Alok Sharma to the Climate Change Committee regarding the UK's Nationally Determined Contribution.
The vaccine will be made available across the UK to priority groups from next week.
Letter from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Alok Sharma, to the chemicals sector about actions they need to take from 1 January 2021.
COP26 President Alok Sharma's opening remarks at the Carbon Market Institute's 7th Australasian Emissions Reduction Summit
The plant will pave the way to a limitless supply of low carbon, clean energy and help support thousands of new highly-skilled jobs.
The new fund will improve medicine supply chains and create thousands of jobs.
The UK now has access to a total of 357 million doses of vaccines from 7 different developers.
COP26 President Alok Sharma at the Green Alliance's "Making it Count" event, marking one year to go until the climate change conference in Glasgow
A joint statement from the Zero Emission Vehicle Transition Council after their first meeting to accelerate the pace of the global transition to zero emission vehicles.
A dedicated Digital Markets Unit will be set up to introduce and enforce a new code to govern the behaviour of platforms that currently dominate the market, such as Google and Facebook.
COP26 President Alok Sharma at the 3rd Global RE-INVEST Renewable Energy Investors Meet & Expo, organised by the Government of India
Millions of UK workers to receive increase in pay from April 2021 following rise in the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.
Letter from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Alok Sharma, to the professional and business services sector about actions they need to take from 1 January 2021.
COP26 President Alok Sharma at the opening of the UN Climate Change Dialogues 2020 on keeping up momentum on climate action and ambition with one year to go until the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.
UK’s independent regulator to evaluate latest data from Pfizer and BioNTech to ensure the quality, safety and effectiveness of the vaccine meets the standards required.
Acquisition of global satellite communications company, OneWeb, completes today, following successful government bid in July 2020.
COP26 President Alok Sharma at the opening of Mock COP, a youth-led online climate conference from 19 November - 2 December, on the importance of working with youth and civil society in the run up to COP26.
Sales of new petrol and diesel cars to end in the UK by 2030.
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