Construction leaders call for £525bn national retrofit programme

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Scheme would see overhaul of UK’s 28 million homes over the next 20 years to improve energy efficiency

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has called on the government to support a £525bn  retrofit programme to make the UK’s 28 million homes greener over the next two decades.

The group said that without a long-term national retrofit strategy to improve the energy efficiency of homes, which currently emit 20% of the UK’s carbon emissions, the government will be unable to meet its targets to achieve net zero by 2050.

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