Barry Sheerman MP and Baroness Ilora Finlay warmly welcome the Government’s announcement today to extend regulations to keep people safe in their homes from the silent killer of carbon monoxide.

Policy Connect welcomes the news of the imminent introduction of the Green Homes Grant scheme. In an economic statement tomorrow, 8 July 2020, Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP is expected to announce a £2 billion grant scheme in England that will be available for energy efficiency measures. The funding will be made available as part of a set of wider measures to stimulate economic recovery from the impact of the Covid-19 crisis.

Policy Connect’s sustainability team has today announced that it will be launching a collection of essays on addressing climate change and meeting the UK’s target of net zero emissions by 2050.

The collection will focus on how to deliver climate policy within energy, construction, industry, transport, consumption, and land use, with a consideration of local, national and international contexts. Each essay will take a sectoral or cross-cutting issue and examine the challenges and opportunities for delivering solutions in that area.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has adopted a number of Policy Connect’s recommendations in its updated guidance on ‘Indoor air quality at home’.

Following a consultation between June and August, the newly published document includes a number of guidelines that will help healthcare professionals raise awareness of, and prevent, carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.