Keep funding green homes to meet emissions target, say businesses

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CBI, Energy UK and others tell chancellor cutting scheme will risk target of net zero emissions by 2050
Business groups are urging the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to keep funding home insulation and other low-carbon measures under the green homes grant, which is under threat from cuts.
They warned that moves to reduce the amount of money paid out under the scheme, or abandon it altogether, would make it harder to reach the government’s target of net zero emissions by 2050, and damage the UK’s credibility as host nation of this year’s Cop26 UN climate summit and president of the G7 group of rich nations. Continue reading...

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