The ECO scheme isn't working - more courageous policy is needed to decarbonise UK homes

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Following the ECO energy efficiency scheme's systemic failures, the UK now needs a major rethink in its policy approach to funding home retrofits, writes Ewan Archer-Brown and Professor Jan Rosenow from the University of Oxford

The UK's spending watchdog has exposed some deep, systemic failures of governance for heat decarbonisation measures. The National Audit Office (NAO) last week released a damning assessment of the energy...

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