It will take more than a century to fully decarbonise the existing UK housing stock at current home insulation rates, according to a new report from WWF. New policies are urgently required to boost the energy efficiency of new and existing homes if the UK is to reach its long-term climate targets, the research claims. The report calls for the soon-to-be-released Clean Growth Plan to include a strategy that triples the speed at which existing homes are retrofitted, to ensure that four million homes are improved by 2025.
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