Government blows £3m of Green Deal budget on marketing
The Green Deal is failing despite the huge sums invested in promoting it.
The Green Deal is failing despite the huge sums invested in promoting it.
Amidst all the debates on wind farms, and the publication of the Energy Bill last week, DECC today published the latest energy trends.
David Cameron has finally made his energy policy position clearer – it turns out it is somewhere near to suggestions from IPPR.
Following Ed Davey’s op ed today in Politics Home, Will Straw looks at whether the Liberal Democrats have already caved on a 2030 decarbonisation target.
Quite how David Cameron thinks this can be the greenest government ever if he isn’t serious about household energy use is anyone’s guess, writes Charlie Samuda.
The Government’s proposals so far to bring down energy bills are tinkering around the edges – the problem will only be properly tackled when competition is enforced.
It is the received wisdom that the UK’s emissions are falling. But this is not the case; as academic studies and government briefings show, the UK’s emissions continue to rise, reports Guy Shrubsole.
Green issues just aren’t as central to the [Tories’] political offer as they once were; green issues are not needed to ‘de-toxify’, because Lib Dems do this.
The credibility of the coalition’s claim to be the ‘greenest government ever’ suffered a huge blow today following reports the Treasury is planning to axe DECC.