The UK needs to switch away from fossil fuel heating georgeclerk/Getty Images
The UK won’t be able to meet its 2050 climate change targets unless much more is done to cut emissions from heating buildings. The government’s latest proposals for doing so have been criticised as inadequate.
“They are staggeringly unambitious,” says Jan Rosenow at the Regulatory Assistance Project, an organisation dedicated to speeding up the clean energy transition.
Unless more is done, it will take about 1500 years to meet a heating target for 2050 recommended by the UK’s official advisers …
