Action on climate emergency
Failures in energy efficiency schemes has been reported in The Guardian today. The report reveals that following an investigation almost all the external insulation fitted under the previous government’s energy efficiency scheme was installed so poorly it will have to be repaired or replaced. Thousands of homeowners who took advantage of the home insulation schemes …
Insulate draughty homes and do more to make that happen is the call from Britain’s climate change chief Chris Stark, head of the UK’s Climate Change Committee. Speaking to the BBC this week Stark rated government policy on insulation as “very poor” and went on to say that insulation, together with renewable power, is the …
New homes standards – what to expect? In a long-delayed consultation on low-carbon building standards the government has formally backed plans to ban gas and “hydrogen-ready” boilers from newly built homes in England from 2025. This could mean heat pumps being installed as standard as part of measures to make all new homes “net zero …
One casualty from the government’s watering down of net zero measures (apart from the climate itself) was revealed just hours after the retreat when the BBC revealed that the taskforce to speed up home insulation and boiler upgrades had been disbanded. The group – which included the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission Sir John …