Going Green: Where does the UK sit in the world rankings?

The Climate Change Committee (CCC), who is the Government’s independent watchdog published their annual progress report to Parliament in June and it makes for rather sad reading because the UK is not on track to reach legally binding targets to reduce carbon pollution. So not only have we lost our world leading position, the situation is not set to get any better despite numerous pledges. What this means in reality is less homes were insulated last year under a government backed insulation strategy and scheme than the year before, despite the cost-of-living crisis looming large still and the soaring cost of energy bills. Homes that are being built now will need expensive retro fitting when it comes to insulation too so even new builds are falling behind.

There hasn’t been any significant progress on decreasing emissions from transport, in fact the government set 2030 targets for reducing pollution which it’s currently failing to reach which means emission reductions will have to quadruple to reach their targets in the next seven years.