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Pledge to axe UK Climate Change Act backfires
The UK’s Leader of the Opposition, and Leader of The Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has vowed to repeal its Climate Change Act if the Conservative Party wins back power. This has backfired after being met with a united outcry from business, charities and faith leaders. The UK’s Climate Change Act was the first legislation of its kind in the world, setting legally binding carbon budgets to ensure the UK played its part in ending the climate crisis.
Mission Possible: the UK’s clean power mission
Blog 15 Jan 2025 Labour’s clean power mission has the potential to tackle the biggest issues facing the UK today: the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis and delivering economic growth. By accelerating the deployment of renewables, the UK can achieve its clean power mission by 2030. With the right set of policies, clean power can also bring down bills, so the benefits of renewables are felt by all households.
The UK's clean power mission: Delivering the prize
The UK government can both achieve its Clean Power 2030 mission and bring down electricity bills for households. Detailed modelling shows the government target of 95% clean power by 2030 is attainable, and will protect the UK from gas price volatility. If that is paired with the policy reforms in E3G’s Electricity Bills Charter, billpayers could enjoy savings of over £200 a year by 2030.
Budget to unleash UK's clean energy revolution
As the Chancellor sat down after her Budget speech last week, shock waves rippled across Britain. Certain commentators fulminated over the record £40 billion of tax rises, despite a recent election in which voters overwhelmingly voted for more public spending to restore crumbling public services.
How climate change is shaping the UK election landscape
The manifestos are in, and UK voters face clear blue water when it comes to climate action at the General Election. Parties on the left and centre have prioritised tackling the climate crisis, integrating the net zero transition into their visions for economic renewal, and addressing the high cost of oil and gas as the root cause of the cost-of-living crisis.
Fuelling the fire: the curse of political short-termism
Political short-termism is a curse in the fight for low energy bills. It was painfully exemplified when David Cameron and George Osborne ‘cut the green crap’ in 2013 to remove environmental levies. This move wrecked the UK’s insulation programme, cutting insulation rates by 90% and adding £2.5 billion to household energy bills. It has reared its ugly head again following the three by-elections on 20th July.
The energy efficiency myth buster
There will be a lot of discussions about energy efficiency in the coming months, its potential, and what needs to be done. Here are five myths and five truths about energy efficiency that you need to know. Five myths It is estimated that €60-100bn of annual investment is needed in buildings alone to achieve the 20% EU energy savings target by 2020. Current investments are less than half this level.
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