The government is considering compelling householders to retrofit when they do other improvement work on their house. For the alphabet soup of bodies this is great news as for them a government-mandated programme absolves their members of actually selling the benefits of the Green Deal to homeowners. There is also word that no one, including the government is prepared to stand up and guarantee that there will be any benefits. At the recent launch of the ClOB's CarbonAction2050.com website, during the many side discussions it became clear that nobody really knows what the Green Deal means, how it will work or whether it will make any difference.
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