Housing and car industries should be 'ashamed' of climate record

Failure to build energy-efficient homes and clean cars risks UK missing its carbon targets, says government's climate adviserThe homebuilding and carmaking industries "should be ashamed" of their efforts to tackle global warming, according to the UK government's official climate change adviser.Lord Deben, chair of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), said housebuilders were "cheating" buyers with energy-inefficient homes and that motor companies were holding back the rollout of clean cars. Continue reading...