The recommendations cover areas like the greater role that business can be supported to play, making better use of infrastructure and delivering more energy efficient homes.
His advice to small businesses include reforming the planning system to put net zero at its heart nationally and locally, and backing at least one Trailblazer Net Zero City, local authority and community that can work towards reaching net zero by 2030 delivering energy efficient homes, including legislating for the Future Homes Standard so that no new homes will be built with a gas boiler from 2025.
These also include adopting a 10-year mission to make heat pumps a widespread technology in the United Kingdom using infrastructure to unlock net zero, including developing a cross-sectoral infrastructure strategy by 2025 to support the building and adaptation for new green energy sources such as hydrogen to support the green economy.
Each recommendation is aimed at maximising economic investment, opportunities and jobs, while working towards achieving legally-binding targets to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, an official release said.
Skidmore urged ministers to grasp the ‘historic opportunity’, highlighting how the government’s Net Zero Strategy offers the right direction, and the right policies to do so.
Official statistics show there are already around 400,000 jobs in low carbon businesses and their supply chains across the country, with turnover estimated at £41.2 billion in 2020.
Both the British Energy Security Strategy and Net Zero Strategy aim to leverage an additional and unprecedented £100 billion of private investment, while supporting an additional 480,000 British jobs by 2030.
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