Institute for Government: Green Homes Grant Scheme badly undermined by Whitehall
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Poor coordination across government hampered delivery of Green Homes Grant Scheme, according to IfG
Think tank argues green homes policy hampered by poor delivery, optimistic timetables, and lack of Whitehall coordination
The government must quickly learn lessons from the failure of its flagship green homes upgrade voucher scheme or it will fail to decarbonise the UK s notoriously draughty housing stock, which remains responsible for a sizeable chunk of the country s greenhouse gas emissions.
FUTURE HOMES
SHEAP heats more than 1200 homes and buildings in Lerwick including schools, care homes, leisure centres and a hospital THE Scottish Government’s Draft Heat in Buildings Strategy consultation document, published last month, emphasises that homes and workplaces account for around 21 per cent of Scotland’s total greenhouse gas emissions. ‘We can and must make very significant progress towards eliminating emissions from the way we heat our buildings over the next decade and reduce them to zero by 2045,’ it says, also pointing to heating solutions that are ‘widely used in other European countries and are now gaining a growing share of the market here in Scotland – but for many of us, they remain unfamiliar’.
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