£20bn plan for green homes
Author: The Guardian - Dec 15, 2009
David Cameron has pledged that a Conservative government would from "day one" kickstart £20bn of investment to make millions of homes more energy-efficient in a groundbreaking green partnership with Tesco and Marks & Spencer.
In a Guardian interview to coincide with the critical stage of the Copenhagen summit, the Tory leader reveals the plan to let householders share in the savings made on their power bills with the high street retailers who provide them with lagging and insulation.
David Cameron tells Nicholas Watt that world leaders must come to an agreement in Copenhagen. Link to this audio
He says he has already signed up a group of local councils and the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, for the scheme which would tackle more than 30% of UK carbon emissions by offering 6 million households the chance to get £6,500 worth of energy-efficiency measures.
Cameron sees the idea for a "localist green revolution" as an answer to his fear that what he describes as the current top- down climate change agenda is "in danger of starting to lose people".
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