Welcoming CBI’s call today (Wednesday 28 August 2013) for a major push on energy efficiency, Friends of the Earth’s Head of Campaigns Andrew Pendleton said:

“With rocketing fuel prices, an impending climate crisis and mounting concerns about energy security it’s astonishing that Ministers haven’t made energy efficiency a top priority.

“Government efforts to help cash-strapped households cut energy waste have floundered and its flagship Green Deal policy is sinking fast.

“Ministers must stop dithering. A massive, clear and coordinated energy efficiency programme would create new jobs and business opportunities - and is the only credible way to help households and firms cut power bills in the short term.”

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Notes to editors:

1. CBI calls for big push on energy effiency.