Heat and Buildings Government Strategy

[Lou]

Has anyone had a good look through this Strategy to lower Carbon emissions by 2050?

Introduction from the govt website

The heat and buildings strategy sets out the government’s plan to significantly cut carbon emissions from the UK’s 30 million homes and workplaces in a simple, low-cost and green way whilst ensuring this remains affordable and fair for households across the country. Like the transition to electric vehicles, this will be a gradual transition which will start by incentivizing consumers and driving down costs.

There are about 30 million buildings in the UK. Heating these buildings contributes to almost a quarter of all UK emissions. Addressing the carbon emissions produced in heating and powering our homes, workplaces and public buildings can not only save money on energy bills and improve lives, but can support up to 240,000 skilled green jobs by 2035, boosting the economic recovery, levelling up across the country and ensuring we build back better.

 

[Lou]

Has anyone had a good look through this Strategy to lower Carbon emissions by 2050?

Introduction from the govt website

The heat and buildings strategy sets out the government’s plan to significantly cut carbon emissions from the UK’s 30 million homes and workplaces in a simple, low-cost and green way whilst ensuring this remains affordable and fair for households across the country. Like the transition to electric vehicles, this will be a gradual transition which will start by incentivizing consumers and driving down costs.

There are about 30 million buildings in the UK. Heating these buildings contributes to almost a quarter of all UK emissions. Addressing the carbon emissions produced in heating and powering our homes, workplaces and public buildings can not only save money on energy bills and improve lives, but can support up to 240,000 skilled green jobs by 2035, boosting the economic recovery, levelling up across the country and ensuring we build back better.

How do you think the government will stick to these dates?

Do you think that we will actually be carbon zero by 2050?

 

[Ric2013]

If previous history is anything to go by, they won't and no.

Plenty of examples of agreeing to do one thing and then doing another Council policies 'inconsistent' with climate goals - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58102578

Not to mention Terminal 3. I hope we all remember where Mr. Johnson was hen he was supposed to be lying in front of the bulldozers, or at least voting against the idea?

 

[SimonG]

To be absolutely brutal, I don't care. In 2050 I will be 82 or dead.
Our little country will not fix the planet by taxing its inhabitants over and over for 'green' initiatives.

What you need is Thanos to click his fingers and half the worlds population to disappear. The climate issue is being driven by the population issue that nobody really wants to address, unless you're a lab in Wuhan.

 

[Dajome]

The industry is looking to replace natural gas with hydrogen. Some boiler manufacturers are already selling hydrogen ready boilers (just as tv manufacturers produced HD ready tvs). Assuming hydrogen can produced in large enough quantities, the infrastructure to supply is already there and it is a zero carbon solution.

 

[Ric2013]

The industry is looking to replace natural gas with hydrogen. Some boiler manufacturers are already selling hydrogen ready boilers (just as tv manufacturers produced HD ready tvs). Assuming hydrogen can produced in large enough quantities, the infrastructure to supply is already there and it is a zero carbon solution. [my Italics - Ric 2013]

I'd suggest it's low carbon rather than zero-carbon. Still infrastucture to maintain and factories and emergy to produce it. (And that's assuming we're talking best-case scenario of green or blue hydrogen, and, if we include nuclear as a low-carbon source, purple hydrogen, and if the energy required for hydrogen doesn't compete with other uses for electricity).