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Tory MP Chris Skidmore, the chair of the Net Zero Review, was tasked by the Liz Truss administration in September last year to develop recommendations on how the UK could improve its net-zero efforts.

It includes energy efficiency proposals that would ensure that all homes sold by 2033 would be able to demonstrate an EPC rating of at least C. It also proposes a 10-year plan to ensure heat pumps become more widespread throughout the UK and the banning of new gas boiler installations from 2025.

A new infrastructure strategy should be implemented by 2025 that supports adaptation for new green energy sources such as hydrogen and other liquid and gaseous fuels, the report recommends.

It also suggests a series of tax incentives to encourage businesses to invest in decarbonisation, including via the tax system.

Official statistics show there are around 400,000 jobs in low carbon businesses and their supply chains across the UK, with turnover estimated at £41...

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  • Long before all that, we need all the habitable buildings with solid walls (in the UK the govt reckon about ) to be externally insulated to give at least the performance of an empty cavity wall, and ideally to that of an insulated one - house insulation needs to become like double glazing - standard practice, not some exotic thing only done by folk wearing home knitted sandals. Not using the energy at all, is preferable to scrabbling about to find alternatives to waste at the same rate. Vive the negawatt !
    Mike.

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  • Long before all that, we need all the habitable buildings with solid walls (in the UK the govt reckon about ) to be externally insulated to give at least the performance of an empty cavity wall, and ideally to that of an insulated one - house insulation needs to become like double glazing - standard practice, not some exotic thing only done by folk wearing home knitted sandals. Not using the energy at all, is preferable to scrabbling about to find alternatives to waste at the same rate. Vive the negawatt !
    Mike.

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