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'World's first' carbon budget looks for 34% cuts in 10 years

Chancellor Alistair Darling outlined a series of green stimulus measures today as he set the world's first ever "carbon budgets" which will require the UK to cut its emissions by more than a third by 2020.

Chancellor Alistair Darling outlined a series of green stimulus measures today as he set the world's first ever "carbon budgets" which will require the UK to cut its emissions by more than a third by 2020.