Work shorter hours ‘to combat climate change’

Think tank says UK would need to adopt a nine-hour working week in order to meet Paris climate targets

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(Image credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Europeans need to work much shorter hours each week to help better combat climate change, a new study has suggested.

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