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<p>Green Growth is absolutely possible. Between 1990 and 2018, the UK reduced emissions
by 43% while growing our economy by 75% – decarbonising our economy faster than any
other G20 country since 2000. The latest statistics show that UK emissions on a consumption
basis (including emissions embedded in imports) also fell by 21 per cent between 2007
and 2017. Last year, the UK became the first major economy to legislate to achieve
net zero emissions. This will continue to enable us to meet our climate change obligations,
including those made under the Paris Agreement, and – as stated by the Committee on
Climate Change – goes beyond the reduction needed globally to hold the expected rise
in global average temperature to well below 2°C.</p>
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