«Breaking News» Chancellor Philip Hammond goes green with his plan to tackle climate change

Phillip Hammond will use his Spring Statement this week to unveil a series of green measures.

The Chancellor will say he has heard calls from young people to act on climate change – and will ‘pledge to preserve the environment for future generations’.

It comes after last month’s ‘climate strike’, in which thousands of pupils across the country skipped lessons and joined mass events calling for more action to preserve the planet. 

Mr Hammond also wants to help conserve natural habitats in the UK’s overseas territories, from ice fields to coral reefs and tropical forests. Other measures will include a major global review to assess the economic value of biodiversity [File photo]

Mr Hammond will say the UK must be ‘creative and innovative’ on climate change.

Among his proposals to tackle carbon emissions is future-proofing new homes by making sure they are energy efficient, have lower bills and are better for the environment.

He will bring in rules that will force all new-build homes to have low-carbon heating. Mr Hammond has vowed to at least halve the energy use of new-build properties by 2030.

He will look into whether all airlines should give passengers the option to pay to offset their carbon emissions when booking their flights. Currently only a small number of airlines give travellers that option.

Mr Hammond also wants to help conserve natural habitats in the UK’s overseas territories, from ice fields to coral reefs and tropical forests.

Other measures will include a major global review to assess the economic value of biodiversity. It comes as figures show how much biodiversity contributes to the UK economy.

The value to crops of our 1,500 pollinator species, such as bees, is estimated to be at least £680million per year.

It comes after last month’s ‘climate strike’, in which thousands of pupils across the country skipped lessons and joined mass events calling for more action to preserve the planet [File photo]

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Main photo article Phillip Hammond will use his Spring Statement this week to unveil a series of green measures.
The Chancellor will say he has heard calls from young people to act on climate change – and will ‘pledge to preserve the environment for future generations’.
It comes after last month’s ‘climate strike’,...

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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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