Earlier this month, Richard spoke at the launch of Barclays' report, Retrofitting and Net Zero: a behaviour change dilemma.
Speaking afterwards, Richard Fuller MP said:
Heat pumps. Hydrogen. Sustainable oil. The effort to decarbonise home heating is fraught with too much expense and too few good ideas of how to pay for the transition.
With this in mind I was pleased to help host the recent launch of a new report by Barclays that commissioned research into how we, the people, think about changing our home heating to a Net Zero option. The crux of the answer is that we love the idea but we don’t want to pay for it. At an average cost of maybe £20,000 per home, that’s understandable.
But politicians must come clean with the public about the costs and not just stick with fear and ideology. This is a practical problem and it needs pragmatic solutions.
In his speech last Wednesday, the Prime Minister showed that he gets it, and is ready to make the tough decisions needed to deliver our net zero commitments in a pragmatic and cost effective manner.
