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Natural gas prices fell across Europe at the end of 2022 as something called the Dutch Title Transfer Facility – the benchmark gas price – moved close to pre-Ukraine war levels. This has been achieved by importing liquid natural gas from markets other than Russia, such as the US. As yet, the European winter hasn’t been overly harsh, a stroke of good fortune we may not see repeated when the weather gets colder again at the end of 2023.


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Creating a boosted energy market like this isn’t going to help the proponents of urgent action now to change energy use, and try to halt the changes that are causing our increasingly wayward and damaging climate. Our Government needs to intervene now to ensure that consumers – and therefore the construction industry – are still incentivised to make savings.


I don’t want higher prices; I want ways of living and working which minimise energy use and make life affordable long term, and climate change less of a risk for the future. As well as more sustainable buildings, this means thinking more locally and in a less consumption-oriented way about a lot of things. It also means the Government taking the reins to make the big moves to achieve the goals, with sticks as well as carrots where it has to.


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If it is so inclined, the Government can take collective steps to intervene to ensure improvements and changes are made on a large scale for the benefi t of our environment.


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ome good news to start 2023 with, which is a nice change – fuel prices are going back to where they were before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Well, partly good news – as ever.


Of course, environmentalists (which should really be all of us), may not be delighted to hear that prices are returning to something ‘normal,’ as that helps consumers to feel less panicky about the need to drastically change their lives to reduce overall fossil fuel usage. Many of us continue to depend on cars and other vehicles, and until we can make steps to massively reduce their use – both from personal choice and measures like ‘engineering’ fewer car spaces in developments (and investing in public transport as well as trying to help everyone go ‘EV’), combustion engines’ contribution to CO2


will remain hard to crack.


Ed Milliband (if you can’t remember, he was the guy who was pilloried for not being able to eat a bacon sarnie attractively enough) brought in the 2008 Climate Change Act. It is thought to be responsible for most of the car use reduction seen since. After that, in 2013 the Energy Company Obligation was in the same spirit, but saw the Government showing it was prepared to order the affl uent private sector to underwrite energy improvements to many thousands of houses.


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