The UK has overachieved against three consecutive carbon budgets and halved emissions since 1990.
The country will not carry forward surplus emissions cuts from the past.
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The CCC's advice on what to do with the Third Carbon Budget's pandemic-boosted emissions savings is unequivocal - the government must resist the temptation to cynically weaken the UK's world-leading climate targets
Official data confirms previously reported figures showing UK emissions have fallen 50 per cent since 1990 while the economy has grown almost 80 per cent