More heat pumps, fewer kebabs. Is this the way to stop climate change?

This Is Why

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Four in five cars should be electric and half of homes should have heat pumps within 15 years. That's according to the government's independent climate advisers, the Climate Change Committee. It says to reach the legally required "net zero" target by 2050 we will need to change how we drive, what we eat and how we heat our homes.

Niall Paterson talks to Sky's science and technology editor Tom Clarke about how individuals can make a difference and what support they can expect from the government.

Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	Add water to your will.
0:02.0	And know that from that single drop,
0:05.0	life will grow.
0:08.0	Communities will flourish.
0:10.0	A better world will be left.
0:13.0	By leaving a gift in your will to Water Aid,
0:16.0	you'll help bring essential clean water to people who need it,
0:20.0	to change their own lives for generations
0:22.4	to come. Add water aid to your will. Search WaterAid legacy to find out how. You know, when Helen
0:31.0	used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? Fine, she'd say. She clearly wasn't. After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found
0:42.3	this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges.
0:49.8	Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. Can't get a word in.
0:55.0	Give your skills new life.
0:56.6	Train others.
0:57.7	Search jobs in further education.
1:00.9	Coming up on the Sky News Daily with me Neil Patterson.
1:04.0	Heat pumps, electric vehicles and eating fewer cababs.
1:07.6	The things we all have to do to get to net zero.
1:11.4	Stop paying to invest.
1:13.7	With free trade, you can invest without the legacy fees,
1:17.2	with a free ICER, a free pension,
1:19.6	and commission-free investing in funds, stocks, ETFs, bonds and more.
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