Zero-carbon buildings targets should be reinstated, MPs urge

摘要

A report by MPs has attacked the government for axing its zero-carbon buildings policy and called for it to be reinstated. Shortly after winning the general election last May, the Conservatives scrapped the targets for all new homes to be zero carbon by this year and all other buildings by 2019. An investigation by MPs on the environmental audit committee found the decision was one of many made by the Treasury on environmental matters "at short notice with little or no consultation with relevant businesses and industries". The MPs' report found the Treasury had "ridden roughshod" over other departments' objectives to change and cancel several long-established environmental policies.