UK urged to ban petrol cars by 2040

Britain’s third largest political party backed a series of radical proposals Monday to tackle climate change, including a ban on petrol powered cars by 2040.

Setting out plans to make Britain carbon neutral by 2050, Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Chris Huhne said that tackling global warming would need an “enormous economic change”.


Climate change meant “far more wild weather” and there was little time left to change the way people live, Huhne warned at the party’s annual conference in Brighton, southern England.

Proposals also included charging lorries to use the UK’s roads in order to double rail investment and possibly creating a high speed rail line running north to south.

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