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Dec 17, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Siobhan Cross
The Labour government must seize the opportunity to transform the energy performance of buildings amidst the ongoing climate emergency, with estimates suggesting that the UK’s buildings and product uses sector was responsible for around 20% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions last year.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Siobhan Cross
In practice, the EPBD will shape what types of materials and heating systems are used in buildings, what type of energy is used to power them, and how their energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are assessed. In implementing the EPBD nationally in the months and years ahead, governments of EU member states will take a leap forward in addressing the impact buildings have on climate change and nature. Many of the measures provide a blueprint for similar action needed in the UK.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Siobhan Cross |Alasdair Weir |Alexander Karst
In this guide, we look at the standards that the EPBD sets – and the actions EU member states and businesses need to take to meet its requirements. The revised EPBD introduces the concept of ‘zero-emission’ buildings (ZEBs) into EU law and requires both new and existing buildings to be ZEBs, in time.
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May 30, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Paul Connolly |Siobhan Cross
Property owners in Britain are facing Increasing regulation following the Grenfell Tower fire in London and because of policy reactions to the climate emergency. Navigating the requirements can be challenging, especially as the rules in England and Wales differ from those in Scotland. Many rules are already in force governing building safety and decarbonisation, and they are different in England and Wales against to in Scotland, and new legislation is proposed .
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Siobhan Cross
According to the long-awaited consultation on technical standards for new Future Homes and Future Buildings Standards, low-carbon heat pumps or heat networks will provide heat to new homes in England from 2025 onwards instead. For new non-domestic property, heat will also be provided by heat pumps, or for ‘top-lit’ property, radiant electric heating and heat networks. Alternatives, such as hybrid and hydrogen-ready boilers, “will not meet the proposed standards”, the government said.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Siobhan Cross
In June, the CCC warned that UK policy is not being delivered at a fast enough rate for the UK to meet its climate change targets. Despite this, earlier this autumn, prime minister Rishi Sunak announced a shift in the government’s approach to delivering a ‘net zero’ UK economy by 2050, citing the need for pragmatism and proportionality amidst the rising costs associated with implementing the policies needed to achieve net zero.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
nature.com | Peter Downie |Elizabeth McKinnon |Michael Osborn |Tim Prestidge |Siobhan Cross |Caroline Bateman | +3 more
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Siobhan Cross
The ban on the sale of new petrol or diesel-powered cars and vans in the UK will now take place from 2035 rather than 2030, prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced, amidst a raft of other revisions of UK government policy linked to delivering ‘net zero’.
In a speech on Wednesday, Sunak also confirmed the government has revised its policies in relation to the phase-out of gas boilers in homes and on home insulation too.
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Siobhan Cross
The government’s preference in this regard is that only some upstream Scope 3 emissions should fall within any proposed MPS scheme. It proposes that MPS would apply at the midstream stage of manufacturing processes when raw materials are manufactured into intermediate products – an example of this would be when a bar of steel is produced – rather than at the downstream stage when those intermediate products are assembled into final goods for sale.
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Mar 30, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Siobhan Cross
Siobhan Cross of Pinsent Masons was commenting after the government published its net zero growth plan (126-page / 3.6MB PDF) and its response (67-page / 536KB PDF) to the Skidmore review, which made recommendations in relation to the government’s approach to delivering its net zero target of reducing UK greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2050 – including a series of recommendations relevant to improving the energy efficiency and decarbonising of UK real estate.
