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The Green Deal needs to be made more financially attractive and the Green Construction Board given more teeth, if the UK is to halve carbon dioxide emissions from buildings by 2025, says an All Party Parliamentary Group in a new report.
In its report, Re-energising the green agenda, the Commission of Inquiry of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment gives its backing to the Green Deal, the Government’s flagship green policy, but says it urgently needs to be reviewed.
“We certainly applaud the Government for introducing the Green Deal, but we feel it is time to take another look at the detail, make it work for social housing, galvanise the schemes locally across the country and make financial incentives permanent,” the report says.
“The concern is that in the current form the Green Deal and Energy Companies Obligation will deliver fewer carbon emissions reductions than the policies they replaced.”
The 36-page report, launched at the House of Commons, is also urging greater clarity from Government. It says: “Despite setting out ambitious targets, the Government has been sending mixed messages about its commitment to the green agenda. This has been particularly apparent over the delay to the revisions to Part L of the Building Regulations covering energy efficiency, and the slow progress on establishing how zero carbon will be met for domestic buildings in 2016. In recent years unexpected changes to the feed-in-tariffs also caused consternation and undermined confidence in the construction sector.”
Buildings account for nearly 50% of all carbon dioxide emissions and reducing the carbon footprint of our new and existing buildings is vital if the UK is to reach its ambitious carbon reduction targets.
The report makes seven recommendations to Government, which include:
Oliver Colvile, the Conservative MP for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport and the Chairman of the group said: “The world faces significant environmental challenges, and to help combat them our Government needs to ensure Britain plays its part in reducing CO2 emissions; make our homes more energy efficient; reduce the costs of heating our homes; help combat fuel poverty and meet our required energy needs.
We hope this report sends a clear message to Government to reaffirm and re-energise its commitment to the delivery of the sustainable agenda in construction and the built environment and in doing so, provide clarity and certainty to help industry play its part in turning policies into success stories. The potential to create jobs at home and export our new skills and expertise in this field abroad is a prize in itself.”
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