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Britain is on track to become the first country in the world to go carbon-free in the not-too-distant future, the Guardian reports.
According to the Telegraph, the British government has set a goal of going carbon-free by 2050.
That's 25 years earlier than the US, which has set a goal of 40 years earlier.
According to the Independent, the goal is to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 25% from 2005 levels by 2030, but it's been hard to hit that target because of the slow progress in the carbon capture and storage industry.
"The fact is, the more delays there are to action now, the more critical innovation is going to be," says Mercedes Maroto-Valer, the director of the UK's Champion for Industrial Decarbonization.
Maroto-Valer says it's "no silver bullet" to go carbon-free, but "the more delays there are to action now, the more innovators are ready to help meet the 2030 and 2050 emissions targets."
Maroto-Valer says it's important for the UK to get its act together now, because the rest of the world is going to have to follow suit if the UK is going to make it to 2050.
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