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Architects call for National Retrofit Strategy to counter carbon generated by growth in home working
The surge in working from home caused by coronavirus will turbocharge the UK housing emissions crisis without urgent government action, the RIBA is warning today.
Changes in behaviour brought about by the pandemic is expected to generate a shift in the balance of what contributes to emissions across the economy, with a dramatic increase in the proportion of total emissions that come from housing stock, it argues in a new report.
RIBA president Alan Jones said the UK had one of the most inefficient housing stocks in Europe and urged the government to make UK homes more energy efficient by bringing forward a National Retrofit Strategy.
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