Even as the UK commits to lower carbon emissions at UN talks, it is handing out enormous subsidies to heavy polluters while discouraging renewables investorsEven a successful fiction writer would be unlikely to attempt to pull off an absurd conceit whereby the self-styled “greenest-ever” government hands out subsidies to the most heavily polluting companies just as it prepares to approve a global climate change treaty.
And yet final week British ministers did just that as a scheme developed under their electricity market reform programme gave £170m to energy companies so that they could build new diesel generators to run for 15 years.
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Source: theguardian.com