Various 'Green' News Items of Interest

Fewer heat pumps are sold and installed in the UK than almost any other country in Europe

Only Hungary has a worse record on rolling out green home heating…

inews.co.uk

'Wasteful and baffling': Government urged to stop funding gas boilers

All subsidies for heating systems that undermine the UK's climate goals must come to an end, analysts warn…

www.businessgreen.com

Bristol commits to tough green standards for new housing

It's difficult to overstate the importance of retrofitting new buildings and ensuring new ones are made to strict green building standards – which is why Bristol's environmentalists may now have a cause to celebrate…

thebristolcable.org

Russell Smith, Director of RetrofitWorks, looks at why local authorities are in pole position when it comes to tackling the climate crisis…

labmonline.co.uk

Government has 'no understanding' of councils' net zero challenge

The government has "no understanding" of the scale of funding required by local authorities to reach net zero, councillors have told MPs…

www.lgcplus.com

Retrofit internal wall insulation: best practice

Guidance for designers, surveyors, project managers and installers about retrofit internal wall insulation…

www.gov.uk

ICYMI: Housing Retrofit Handbook for LA's

Housing retrofit is a complicated and risk-laden challenge, and net-zero is just one priority of the many social economic and environmental priorities each council faces. Yet we know that without concerted public sector intervention to address domestic energy efficiency, legally-binding national and local net-zero targets will be missed.

Local Partnerships was commissioned by BEIS via the five Regional Energy Hubs to produce this Local Authority Housing Retrofit Handbook to provide practical advice to local authorities in England. It brings existing resources together in one place and gives a suggested order in which to work through this material…

localpartnerships.org.uk