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innovative resourcing and monitoring, Display Energy Certificates, and the exercise of government procurement power in purchasing energy-efficient vehicle fleets (including EVs), leases, and products.

Recommendations

The UK government should:

Buildings and appliances

>Commit to clear actions to improve the energy efficiency of poorly performing existing building stock, both in residential and commercial sectors.

>Improve energy efficiency requirements for new buildings by implementing the Grand Challenge and adapting the building codes. Set out a trajectory to affirm the long-term trajectory of nearly zero-energy performance in all new residential and non-residential buildings.

>Continue to upgrade minimum standards and the labelling of appliances and common energy-using products, and establish a plan for extension of these to other product types.

Transport

>Continue to improve minimum standards and labelling for vehicle fuel efficiency for light and heavy-duty vehicles.

>Continue to support the adoption of energy efficiency and emissions reduction measures for aviation, shipping, and rail transport, which includes the announced reduction in rail diesel engines.

Business and industry

>Promote energy efficiency and emissions reduction in business and industry through effective incentives and programmes after the end of the CRCEES.

>Continue requirements for large energy users to examine energy savings opportunities and consider requiring identified cost-effective improvements to be acted upon.

>Carry through, in partnership with industry, on actions in the Industrial Decarbonisation and Energy Efficiency Roadmaps to 2050 and associated action plans for heat-intensive industrial sectors.

Public sector

>Continue to lead by example with the procurement for public sector activity and facilities based on energy efficiency and carbon target policies.

References

CCC (Committee on Climate Change) (2018), An Independent Assessment of the UK’s Clean Growth Strategy: From Ambition to Action, CCC, London, www.theccc.org.uk/publication/independent-assessment-uks-clean-growth-strategy-ambition- action/.

EC (European Commission) (2018), Statistical Pocketbook 2018, DG Transport, https://ec.europa.eu/transport/facts-fundings/statistics/pocketbook-2018_en.

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