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.
Just a fraction of the numbers promised by the government have signed up to the Green Deal.
The Committee on Climate Change is the independent advisor on emissions – yet at present it is being prevented from investigating the ongoing rise in UK emissions.
Climate change minister Greg Barker has said the government is making cuts that “Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s could only have dreamt of”.
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.