Fiscal policy must support the UK's net zero heat ambitions

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A clear strategy to decarbonise heating alongside the right financial framework will encourage investment to flow into the sector, writes Vattenfall's Mike Reynolds

As much as 37 per cent of UK carbon emissions come from heating, a sector proving the most difficult to decarbonise. Most of us - nearly 25 million households and around two million businesses - still...

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