That this House welcomes the Government's commitment to zero carbon housing by 2016; notes that the way homes and buildings are heated in future will have to change due to the increased pressure to reduce carbon emissions and the need to reduce energy costs; further notes that the forthcoming Energy White Paper provides an opportunity for the Government to aid planning authorities to assess new building carbon footprints by setting low carbon grid electricity milestones; and calls on the Government to extend and formalise the carbon projections in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' Market Transformation Programme until 2050 to achieve this and aid housing planning policy.
"Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations." IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers, pg 5.
"Although there remains uncertainty in many aspects of climate science, as in all science, over the past few years an overwhelming and well-founded acceptance has emerged, not only in the scientific community, but among the general public and in political arenas, that human activity, and in particular the burning of fossil fuels, is warming the planet. Far from the debate being over, with this awareness the discourse on climate change has largely moved from one of questioning the science to disputing what ought to be done about the problem." Sir John Houghton in Nature
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