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The energy to fight climate change


Examining the role trading standards can play in the UK's shift to net zero

Richard Young

Posted 13 January 2022 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Analysis|Consumer Goods and Services|National


ANALYSIS: Net Zero will transform how consumers heat, insulate and power their homes, creating risks around misleading claims, poor installation, smart meters, heat pumps and domestic energy storage. Trading standards has a vital role in ensuring the transition protects consumers, supports reputable businesses and avoids repeating past green scheme failures.

It’s impossible for a day to go by without seeing or hearing something about climate change – never more so than when Glasgow hosted COP26 in the first two weeks of November 2021. The COP26 summit brought parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Whether anything meaningful was actually achieved remains to b...

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