Carbon Connect

Pipeline to 2050 - Building the foundations for a harmonised heat strategy

Policy Connect and Carbon Connect are proud to launch their latest report: Pipeline to 2050 - Building the foundations for a harmonised heat strategy. 

Following up on our report Uncomfortable Home Truths, Pipeline to 2050 sets out recommendations for BEIS’ forthcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy. Based on the findings of five roundtables held between January and July 2020 with cross-party parliamentarians, policy-makers and experts from industry, academia and non-governmental organisations, the publication calls for a joined-up approach that simultaneously addresses all aspects of heat decarbonisation.

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MPs call for green heat roadmap by 2020 & olympic-style delivery body to tackle UK's 27M ‘uncomfortable home truths’

A new report backed by MPs and launched by Minister for Climate Change Lord Duncan today calls for an urgent Green Heat Roadmap by 2020 to scale low carbon heating technologies and help Britain’s homeowners access the advice they need to take smarter greener choices on heating their homes.  The year-long study by UK think-tank Policy Connect warns that the UK will miss its 2050 net-zero climate target “unless radical changes in housing policy, energy policy and climate policy are prioritised”.

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COVID-19: The implications of the pandemic on the UK energy sector

Building on insights from our COVID-19 and the Energy Sector online event, our blog explores what steps we need to take to keep the lights on for everyone during the pandemic and its aftermath, and highlights what actions we need to take to ‘build back better’ post-COVID, facilitating a green recovery.

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Policy Connect welcomes announcement of Green Homes Grant scheme

Policy Connect welcomes the news of the imminent introduction of the Green Homes Grant scheme.

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