Committee chairs set out opportunities of green economic recovery to chancellor and stress recovery must accelerate move to net zero to avert climate crisis

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The chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee, Darren Jones, and the chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), Philip Dunne, have written to the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, warning that time is running out to ‘avert an even greater future global crisis caused by climate change’. They stress that the UK’s post-COVID economic recovery package should be used as an opportunity to accelerate investment on climate adaptation and cutting emissions to net zero.