Energy White Paper: Government confirms £6.7bn warm homes package and UK ETS
The UK Government has finally released its Energy White Paper, detailing steps to deliver overwhelmingly decarbonised power in the 2030s , with a new £6.7bn support scheme to be set up to tackle fuel poverty and a UK variant of the Emissions Trading Scheme to be introduced.
The White Paper builds on numerous commitments outlined by Government in recent months
The Energy White Paper has been delayed numerous times in 2020, but the Government finally detailed what the strategy entails on Monday (14 December).
It builds on the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and the National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS) in outlining how the nation plans to transform its power and heating systems to support the net-zero emissions target for 2050. Specifically, the Government believes new measures will help cut emissions from industry, transport and buildings by 230 million metric tonn
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Boris Johnson says Government won t risk North East coronavirus spike amid calls to end Tier 3
The Prime Minister was speaking during a visit to Blyth on Friday and said that the Government will not risk a further spike in cases
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Boris Johnson has warned that the Government will not risk another North East spike in Covid cases, amid calls for the region to be allowed to leave Tier 3 next week.
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