UK MPs call for extra ?30bn to aid green recovery from Covid-19

Cross-party group calls for 'faster, further, fairer' action to tackle climate and nature crisisCoronavirus - latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK needs to invest an additional ?30bn a year in shovel-ready green projects to create jobs, energise the post-lockdown economy and put the country back on track to achieve its climate targets, a new cross-party commission recommends.In the most detailed blueprint to date for a green recovery from Covid-19, it also advises the government to make an initial down payment of ?5bn into a national "just transition fund" that would support the regions likely to be worst affected by the shift away from fossil fuels. Continue reading...