The current flawed approach to EPCs will undoubtedly devalue off-grid properties as potential homeowners and landlords choose not to invest in rural locations due to the unfair policy penalties.
Leading developers across the country, including Landsec, are now working hard against an ambitious science-based carbon reduction target and transitioning to net zero quicker than required. But more can still be done.
The risk is that without international coordination, the world could descend into ‘green’ protectionism – and Britain would be trapped on the outside.
It’s one of the largest sources of clean energy used today and will continue to play a critical role in providing affordable electricity.
Its main difficulties surround the related issues of getting Brexit done, cutting low and no skilled migration and keeping taxes down.
Our columnist provides the third piece in our series this week about Brexit – almost a year since the end of transition.
At the heart of the Midlands Engine’s strategy is a desire to collaborate, particularly in sectors vital to the low carbon transition.
Central to the whole debate is the question of people’s buy in to what the transition means for their own lifestyle.
Many high-emitting nations are either avoiding COP altogether or stalling when it comes to committing to carbon targets.
To protect those in fuel poverty, some of the revenue from the gas carbon charge could be given back as a carbon cheque to vulnerable households.
Without China and India onboard, the ability to tackle climate change will become a losing battle.
Setting a target for three decades in the future is illusory, lending itself to virtue-signalling and ill-thought-out measures.
While by no means a silver bullet, there is a strong free market case for taxing emissions.
Leading by example is all well and good. Impoverishing yourself in order to make a point, not so much.
Thanks to Conservative policies, the UK has one of the fastest decarbonisation rates of any G7 country, built the world’s largest offshore wind farms off our coasts, and became the first major economy to enshrine net zero by 2050 in law.