BRITAIN should cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly four-fifths by 2035, government climate advisers have said. 

The Committee on Climate Change said that sales of gas boilers should be halted by 2033 and new fossil-fuelled car sales – including hybrids – should end in 2032.

People should also be encouraged to cut the amount of meat and dairy in their diet by a fifth in the next decade, the committee claimed.

The moves are among those needed to meet its recommended target for the UK to cut emissions by 78 per cent by 2035, based on 1990 levels, it said.

Committee chairman Lord Deben said that an investment of £50 billion a year by 2030 will be required to get out of the recessional effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

But over time, savings in fuel costs, including less gas for power and heating as well as petrol for cars, will offset most of the needed investment.

“We have to do it to protect the planet, but we are having to do it in order to renew our own economy,” Lord Deben said.