For retrofit to succeed we may need a political ceasefire. New blog by @johnalker
This week's report from DECC suggesting more energy efficient properties are more valuable properties is tremendous news. But, without wanting to be a killjoy, it doesn't get politicians off the hook just yet. We need to see greater intervention in the market from Government to really get retrofit moving. Work by Arup that Government itself commissioned shows that to stand any chance of meeting our carbon targets we need to do pretty much everything we can, to every home we can, as soon as we can. Famously, that means retrofitting an average of one home per minute between now and 2050. The Green Deal is the Coalition's flagship policy resp...
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