The Government has set out its Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan, in line with the 2008 Climate Change Act.

The plan includes Investing in clean energy, although details here are rather lacking, and creating 400,000 extra jobs by 2030. The Government has recently announced a national plan to recruit the workers needed for the clean energy mission.

The agenda also includes upgrading homes through the Warm Homes Plan. Notably, though, the Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan does not include a boiler ban and nor will the Warm Homes Plan, meaning the Government is gambling on making heat pumps more economically attractive.

other items are cleaner air and more affordable travel, by which it might imply public transport, SAF and EVs.

Commenting on the plan Tom Cantillon, senior analyst, at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: “"With climate change worsening flooding in the UK, unless we work with nature by planting more trees and restoring habitats like peatlands to capture rainfall, people’s homes and farmers’ fields will be at ever great risk. This plan seems to reduce that ambition. And since farmers in England have just suffered their second worst harvest following an extremely dry spring and the hottest summer on record, reducing the ambition of schemes that could protect crops and livestock is a real head scratcher."

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