The UK’s electricity sector is ahead of the curve when it comes to cutting carbon emissions, but the country still needs to raise its renewables capacity four-fold by 2050 to reach a target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, parliament’s Committee on Climate Change said in a report Thursday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Pillars of the CCC’s recommendations include sharply increasing renewable energy supply, switching entirely to electric vehicles by 2035 at the latest, developing carbon capture and storage technology and low-carbon hydrogen, as well as planting millions of trees, making buildings more efficient and measures to reduce emissions on farms. “All of this is possible [and] we see that the costs are manageable thanks to the fall in cost of key technologies,” Chris Stark, the CCC Chief Executive, told reporters ahead of the report’s release. He said the power and buildings […]