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Government Must Do More To Tackle Climate Change Says CCC

Written on July 5, 2010 – 5:55 am | by admin

The Committee For Climate Change (CCC) recently released a report which said that the government were not doing enough to encourage business owners and landlords to make eco-friendly investments.

The CCC believes that the government should make it their duty to assist buy to let property owners in improving the insulation of their buildings. It is claimed that this measure could facilitate a great reduction in energy usage, which would be of some benefit to the environment.

The report states that work should be carried out to provide lofts and cavity walls with improved insulation. The government are invited to put more money into projects which are aimed at the development of renewable heat.

David Kennedy, Chief Executive of the CCC, said, ‘we’ve had a light-touch approach in the UK, we’ve talked a good game but what we’ve seen is emissions haven’t fallen. We need to do something different. What we have to do isn’t news and is becoming very well known’.

If the government continues to provide the same level of commitment seen in 2009, then ‘we won’t deliver the carbon budgets’, Mr Kennedy continued. It was previously pledged that all British residencies would be zero-carbon by 2016.

There is hope provided by the coalition government agreement that more will be done to ensure that Britain’s homes become more environmentally friendly. However, the extent to which we can trust the new government to live up to it’s promises remains to be seen.

Mr Kennedy said, ‘these commitments are at the moment good intentions. What we need is to translate these into crunchy policies in power, buildings, transport and agriculture. The test of this government will be the policies they put in place over the next year or two. If we’re going to see this step-change actually happen in two to three years, when it needs to happen, we’ve got to have the policies in place in the next year or so’.

According to the CCC, the government should consider it a primary duty to reform the energy sector. It is also claimed that they should encourage any investors who are involved in the development of energy efficient power sources to become part of the market.

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