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Prime minister today, who is hosting a global investment summit. we will hear more about the governments wider net zero strategy today, so, much more conversation and discussion around that today. speaking on the today programme this morning, and marie trevelyan, secretary of state for international trade and uk international champion on adaptation and resilience for the cop26 presidency, said that the government is showing its commitment to real change in tackling climate change. figs to real ...

Are going to be more ready to install them, and, crucially, that people are going to want them. do you think this is going to be enough to convince people with gas boilers to make the switch? perhaps not yet. one of the problem is that theyre going to face here is getting that connection with people and householders, to make sure the policy actually works and its something people are happy to take on. because each home is different, getting 86% of households off gas is a monumental challenge. de...

Democracies? and i think actually the story of the covid vaccines is a reminder of what that system can achieve, because in the end it was free—market capitalism in the great democracies of the world that helped the world to produce the most effective vaccines. and that is the formula we must now repeat. innovation, capitalism, and a strong government lead, because we face a challenge that is even bigger for humanity, a threat to our way of life, that is ultimately far worse than covid. just a...

This announcement is to fund partially just this announcement is to fund partiallyjust 30,000 a year, so, one in plenty of what is needed. and the overall scale of the challenge is that we have 19 million homes in this country that dont yet meet the epc standard that we want to see. so, the scale of the challenges very big. there is big economic potential in this in terms ofjob creation and reducing peoples heating bills, and we need to do that after what we have seen in recent weeks, but the an...

And that the big, chunky stuff that you and i cant control, the big sources of energy, our clean energy solutions in the long term. the shadow economic _ solutions in the long term. the shadow economic secretary to the treasury, pat mcfadden, joins us now from westminster. good morning to you. on this heat and building strategy first of all and the plan to replace gas boilers, heating accounting for 20% of the uk greenhouse gas emissions, do you think this is going far enough, as i asked my coll...