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Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Answer

The Clean Growth Strategy, published earlier this year, set out that we will likely need to decarbonise nearly all heat in buildings and most industrial processes in order to meet the 2050 emissions reduction goal set by the Climate Change Act 2008. The Clean Growth Strategy made clear that there are a number of different scenarios for meeting our 2050 goal and at present, it is not clear which approach will work best at scale and offer the most cost-effective, long term answer. Under all scenarios we will need to improve the energy efficiency of homes and non-domestic buildings, therefore the Clean Growth Strategy outlined a number of policies for achieving this, including:

1. Investing around £3.6 billion to upgrade around a million homes through the Energy Company Obligation (ECO). In addition, we will extend support for home energy efficiency beyond the current commitment to fund ECO to 2022 and out to 2028 with funding at least at current ECO levels

2. Developing a long term trajectory to improve the energy performance standards of privately rented homes, with the aim of upgrading as many as possible to EPC Band C by 2030 where practical, cost-effective and affordable, and consulting on equivalent standards for social housing over this period.

3. Following the outcome of the independent review of Building Regulations and fire safety, and subject to its conclusions, consulting on strengthening energy performance standards for new and existing homes under Building Regulations, including futureproofing new homes for low carbon heating systems,

4. Seeking evidence on building a market for energy efficiency, including additional measures to improve energy performance of owner occupied homes through a Call for Evidence published alongside the Clean Growth Strategy.

5. Developing a package of measures to support businesses to improve how productively they use energy, with the aim of improving energy efficiency by at least 20 per cent by 2030, including by consulting on raising minimum standards of energy efficiency for rented commercial buildings.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

119575

Session

2017-19

Subjects

Costs Conservation Buildings Energy Pollution control Greenhouse gas emissions

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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