Earth Notes: General Bibliography (CCC2025seventh)

• [CCC2025seventh] Emma Pinchbeck and James Richardson and Emily Nurse and Eoin Devan The Seventh Carbon Budget (accessed 2025-02-26), UK Climate Change Committee, 2025-02-26, PDF (report) (BibTeX).
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  [[**CS1] [**UF] 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." Quote: "The Seventh Carbon Budget period will be a key phase of the transition: the electricity supply sector will be largely decarbonised; progress in surface transport will be moving at pace and will need to continue towards completion; and buildings decarbonisation will be ramping up. During this period (from 2038 to 2042) ... The residential buildings sector will be undergoing a period of rapid transition, going from below 50% decarbonisation at the beginning of the period to nearly 80% at the end. The last gas boiler will have already been installed, with the vast majority of new and replacement home heating installations using heat pumps." Quote: "Emissions in residential buildings were 52.2 MtCO2e in 2023, making it the UK's second highest-emitting sector. This is 35% lower than 1990 levels. The largest source of emissions (96%) is the use of fossil fuels for space heating and hot water. The main fossil fuel used for heating and hot water is gas (80% of emissions), with a smaller role for oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) (12%)..." Quote: "Individual heat pumps (75% of low-carbon heating systems installed by 2040). Heat pumps are the dominant solution for replacing fossil fuel heating systems. These mostly consist of air source heat pumps (94% of the heat pumps installed by 2040), with a smaller role for ground source heat pumps (0.4%) and hybrids (6%)."]