Claim: Independent experts from the Committee on Climate Change have said that a new runway at Heathrow can be delivered within the targets for greenhouse gas emissions.
Fact-check: Heathrow airport emissions targets - Full Fact
Verdict: the committee called on the government to publish a strategy for how emissions targets would be achieved, in light of planned expansion at heathrow. it has also provided specific advice on how this could be done.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2016-10-28T00:00:00