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Green transport campaigners Transport and Environment (T&E) has accused car manufacturers of delaying more efficient models until 2019 to clear old diesel stock and trick lawmakers into thinking new emissions targets to be introduced in 2021 are too difficult to achieve.

The 2021 objective says that the average emissions of new cars registered in the EU should not exceed 95 grams CO2/ km. Failure to meet the targets could result in heavy fines.

The government has announced a new scheme for consumers and non-domestic users such as hospitals, schools and council buildings to participate in a heat networks scheme.