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Glasgow and Edinburgh race to become the UK’s first net-zero emissions city

An engineer from renewable energy company Ingenco monitors the ScottishPower windfarm at Hagshaw Hill near Douglas in Scotland December 13,2001. Plans for the construction of what is being described as theworld's biggest wind farm are being unveiled later today. The planswill see the construction of 250 huge turbines on the Hebridean islandof Lewis off the west coast of Scotland. REUTERS/Jeff J MitchellJJM

The Scottish cities plan to decarbonise the economy Image: REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell

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