The permanent secretary for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Alex Chisholm revealed that he expects an emissions reduction plan to be published by the end of February 2017. As part of the first session for the new BEIS Committee – which replaces the now disbanded ECC – Chisholm claimed that a plan to meet post-2020 reduction targets should be introduced by February. The permanent secretary also claimed that BEIS would “learn the lessons of the past” in regards to financing the low-carbon transition.
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