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Net Zero Articles from IPPO

  1. How to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Doorstep Deliveries

    How to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Doorstep Deliveries

    December 17, 2024

    Hope McGee In 2024, the International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) was asked by government partners to explore how policymakers could help to reduce the carbon emitted during the last mile of a parcel’s delivery journey. As part of this work, the observatory held an exploratory roundtable with cross-departmental academics at UCL to identify areas for policy action. Following this, we hosted a broader roundtable with representatives from across the freight and delivery landscape, which fed into a systems map to guide our thinking on this subject. This paper explores the trends contributing...

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  2. Overcoming the Challenges of Financing Retrofit in the UK: A Pathway to Net Zero

    Overcoming the Challenges of Financing Retrofit in the UK: A Pathway to Net Zero

    December 12, 2024

    Rachael Owens Wales and the UK face a significant challenge in ramping up retrofit delivery to meet net zero, fuel poverty and health goals. Currently, across the UK, we retrofit around 250,000 homes per year, but to meet our targets, we need to increase this to 1.5 million homes annually by 2035. This sixfold increase is critical to achieving a total of 11.8 million retrofits in England, 1 million in Wales, 1.2 million in Scotland and 300,000 in Northern Ireland, and that’s just if we are targeting EPC C for all homes....

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