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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe target for the UK is to have zero emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UK Student Climate Network has called for ecological crisis\nto form part of the educational priority and to be included within the national\ncurriculum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Extinction Rebellion – the group who held recent protests in\nUK cities including London, Manchester and Newcastle – also wants a new legally\nbinding target set for the UK to reduce its carbon emissions to net zero by 2025,\n25 years before the current UK target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Committee on Climate Change have suggested more than 60% of emission\nreductions will involve behavioural change. Some of this has been implemented\nthrough policy already however it is likely forced changes will play a larger\npart in altering our attitudes towards impactful practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have already experienced a motion to eliminate single use\nplastics though 5p bag charge, the isolated incidents of swapping plastic\nstraws for paper straws and most recently the governments ban on plastic\nstraws, drink stirrers and cotton buds by April 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New homes in the UK will not be able to install a Gas Boiler\ndue to a ban from 2025 in place lower carbon options. Gas hobs will still be\nallowed. All boilers therefore will be electric or powered by renewable sources\nsuch as Biomass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heating a home with electricity can be more expensive than with\ngas, therefore is a slightly less attractive option. However as more renewable\nsources feed power into the national grid, the electric option is more attractive\nfor those seeking to do their bit to reduce emissions. It is possible to\nimprove the thermal efficiency of homes, particularly in new homes or as part\nof home extensions. The increased thermal efficiency will reduce the amount of\npower required to heat the home thus will reduce the cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A possible solution could be to combine an electric boiler\nwith a couple of solar panels to aid production of power so that the electric\nboiler is not solely reliant on power from the mains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Climate croups are calling for more to be done to reduce the\nimpact the UK is making on the climate. There are calls for the sale of petrol\nand diesel cars to be banned from 2030 with all new cars being powered by\nelectricity and a greater incentive to improve the poor and inefficient housing\nstock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Members of Parliament have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency making the UK the first nation to declare climate emergency. Many areas which have already declared climate emergency say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030 which could be aided by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greener-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/5167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.buildteam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Finsen_Road_03.jpg\")
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