UK’s policy experiments with zero-carbon homes: What went wrong and what questions remain

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Following Kate Barker’s report on housing affordability and the Stern Review on the economics of climate change, in 2006, the UK government suggested that zero-carbon homes can be an opportunity to simultaneously meet the increasing housing demand and tackle climate change. In 2006, the government designed a set of housing and environmental policies (“policy mix”) and set an ambitious target for moving to zero-carbon housing by 2016 with Gordon Brown announcing: “every new home will be a zero-carbon home”. Yet here we are in 2021, and houses are far from being “zero-carbon”. The policy mix was scrapped by the very government that wanted to be the “greenest government ever”?! What went wrong?

 

Period27 Jan 2021

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