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ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners are due to hit out at the government today in light of new data that shows Britain is lagging behind most European countries in selling and installing low-carbon heat pumps to clean up the emissions from heating homes.
The report, published today, says that Britain came joint last out of 21 countries for heat pump sales last year, with just 1.3 sold for every 1,000 households, figures provided to Greenpeace UK by the European Heat Pump Association reveal.
Britain comes second from last for the proportion of homes (1 per cent) which have had heat pumps installed to date, providing a cleaner alternative to fossil fuel boilers.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results