Earth Notes: General Bibliography (CCC2025seventh)

• [CCC2025seventh] UK Climate Change Committee The Seventh Carbon Budget (accessed 2025-02-26), UK Climate Change Committee, 2025-02-26, PDF (report) (BibTeX).
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  [Quote: "For the Seventh Carbon Budget, the most important contingencies we have identified are accelerated roll-out of EVs and heat pumps, including scrappage schemes." Also see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70ekknr2rwo "Half of homes need heat pump by 2040, government told". Quote: "Heat pumps: by 2040, our Balanced Pathway sees around half of homes in the UK heated using a heat pump, compared to around 1% in 2023. This requires the annual rate of heat pump installations in existing residential properties to rise from 60,000 in 2023 to nearly 450,000 by 2030 and around 1.5 million by 2035, a rate of increase in line with that seen in other European countries such as Ireland and the Netherlands. But installation rates do not exceed natural replacement cycles; heating systems are only replaced at the end of their life. All new and replacement heating systems become low carbon after 2035 to ensure a fully decarbonised housing stock by 2050." Quote: "UK homes are predominantly designed around gas heating and will need a one-off improvement to be suitable for heat pumps in many cases." Quote: "Removing barriers. People need to be able to install heat pumps and EV charge points in their homes and businesses. Industries require timely grid connections to allow them to move to electrified production processes. Grid infrastructure is essential to enable everyone to make use of domestically produced low-carbon electricity, reduce energy bills, and improve our energy security. Key processes and rules, including in planning, consenting, and regulatory funding, need to enable rapid deployment of low-carbon technologies." Quote: "Household low-carbon choices contribute to one-third of emissions reduction in 2040. From an emissions perspective, the most impactful decisions most households will make are purchasing an electric car and a heat pump. Choices such as meat and dairy consumption and flying make smaller, but important contributions."]