water down

Some are calling for the government to water down the quotas, in order to give them more time.

Investigative reporting has also documented the repeated attempts of ExxonMobil lobbyists to water down U.S. climate policy.

Law firm Leigh Day said Packham had reached "a legal settlement" with the new Labour government that said the Tory administration "had acted unlawfully" by axing or watering down climate policies.

Some lobbyists have been trying to persuade her to water down a commitment to remove tax breaks for investment which the Treasury has called “unjustifiably generous.”

What other demands are going to be watered down in the next few years?”