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"My view is that if you can offer benefits to consumers - carrots and not just sticks - then you've got more chance of driving heat pump adoption," he says.

“Sanctions relief is no longer the enticing carrot that it once was.”

In another clip shared on Instagram on Tuesday, he is seen feeding two elephants with carrots and then saying: "We are on beer time."

The healthy carrot dangling at the end of that stick was $250,000 and the title of “biggest loser,” both awarded to the person who could drop the most weight within a matter of months.

In terms of the food they were given, there was "lots of meat", typically in sweet and sour sauce, and a dish involving finely-chopped cabbage and carrots in sauce.