Dr Josh Ryan-Collins
Dr Josh Ryan-Collins - As the Government plans to build 300,000 extra homes each year in response to the housing crisis, Dr Joshua Ryan-Collins (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose) and researchers from Surrey and Kent University warn in The Conversation of the strategy's high carbon cost. England's housing sector accounts for 20% of the country's emissions. Its stock is outdated and efforts to improve the energy efficiency of England's homes are limited. The country also has a housing crisis. Successive governments have responded to this by building more homes. The current government wants 300,000 extra homes built each year, coupled with adding energy-efficiency measures to existing homes. But our research demonstrates that, based on current trends, England's housing strategy could consume our entire carbon budget by 2050.
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