majority of the net zero buildings challenge, given that most buildings that exist today will Following the publication of the government’s still be standing in 2050, and how we ensure response to the Net Zero Review, Chris that the new buildings we build today do not Skidmore established the Mission Zero become the retrofits of the future. [...] Coalition, in order to work alongside organisations and businesses that had The Net Zero Review highlighted the pressing contributed to the Net Zero Review, and need for the UK’s Future Homes Standard to develop further the recommendations and be delivering truly net zero homes, as well as missions set out in the report. [...] This A comparison of the Net Zero Strategy and report, Mission Retrofit, therefore acts as an the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan by the CCC opportunity to present to government how indicates that the government has raised its the Prime Minister and the government can ambitions on heat pump installation to 0.2 meet their stated commitments on retrofit and million more heat pumps by 2035, yet at the in. [...] developing and expanding the retrofit industry, To deliver this, we need to focus on the potential ensuring that both demand and supply are for reducing energy demand in buildings, not stimulated at the same time, so that there is merely in terms of emissions reductions, but capacity and capability within the industry to also: meet the growing demand for retrofit.18 • The potential for economic gr. [...] Now is the moment to move If net zero is the economic opportunity of from one-off measures to a cohesive, long-term the decade, buildings and energy efficiency package – to move, in other words, from tinkering is the sector with the greatest potential to to transformation’.19 As E.
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