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environmental audit

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noun

  1. the systematic examination of an organization's interaction with the environment, to assess the success of its conservation or antipollution programme

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The response was prompted by a letter from the chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, Toby Perkins, who asked Miliband whether data centres had been factored into net-zero plans.

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In written evidence submitted to the Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry, the charities said not including data centres in carbon budgets "can only be considered a serious oversight of a major, challenging new source" of emissions.

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In a letter to the energy secretary, Labour MP Toby Perkins, who chairs the Environmental Audit Committee, said data centres are a "key area of concern" in hitting the emissions target.

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The report from the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee said the government had also "not demonstrated" that the negative climate impact of expansion would be outweighed by the economic growth created.

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The Environmental Audit Committee said the only prospect of meeting net zero would be if airport expansion was "accompanied by a serious strategic approach to increasing the pace of decarbonising aviation".

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