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MPs dismiss climate duty

Planning, 6 June 2008

Climate change campaigners were dealt a huge blow this week when calls for a duty to take the issue into account in the Planning Bill, now before parliament, were rejected.

A proposed amendment, voted on as the bill reached its report stage, called for the duty to apply to the infrastructure planning commission and secretary of state. The motion was...

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