Urgent action is needed to retrofit the UK’s 29m inefficient, leaky homes or “risk missing” net zero targets.
Fourteen executives from organisations including Legal & General’s modular homes division, British Gas, Eon, Nationwide and the Federation of Master Builders are demanding a national retrofit strategy to slash emissions from Britain’s homes, which were last year responsible for more than a fifth of the UK’s carbon dioxide releases.
The group added that the UK’s building stock was among the most inefficient in Europe.
The government is yet to publish a key Heat and Buildings Strategy that was expected last year and campaigners fear prime minister Boris Johnson will shy away from much-need measures, such as a 2035 ban on natural gas boilers.
