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The government wants to phase out installations of gas boilers (picture: Getty)

Is this housing’s path to net-zero carbon emissions?

December 5, 2020

The prime minister’s ten-point plan for a green industrial revolution is aimed at achieving ‘net zero’ carbon emissions by 2050. In the housing sector alone the challenge is enormous: just to reach the government’s interim target for housing by 2035 means retrofitting 1.2 million UK homes every year to high standards. Will the government’s plan […]

Category: Housing, Energy and the environment | Tags: energy efficiency, housing investment, climate change

It’s a do or die moment

It’s a do or die moment

December 6, 2019

All the main parties in the 2019 election are putting forward energy efficiency measures in some form. CIH’s John Perry and Orbit’s Christoph Sinn look at how the sector responds and whether it can frame an ambitious yet realistic programme and do its part in tackling the climate emergency.

Category: Housing, Energy and the environment | Tags: housing investment, climate change, energy efficiency

Our homes are wasting energy on a prolific scale

Our homes are wasting energy on a prolific scale

March 8, 2019

Do you remember when housing associations were falling over each other to prove how ‘green’ they were? But since the recession and David Cameron reportedly telling his aides to “get rid of all the green crap” the funding has been cut and the social sector’s priorities have changed. Yet we all know that the linked […]

Category: Housing, Energy and the environment | Tags: energy efficiency, climate change

Can a coast-to-coast canal solve Nicaragua's poverty problem?

Can a coast-to-coast canal solve Nicaragua’s poverty problem?

December 3, 2017

Nicaragua is a small country that was praised for eventually signing the Paris climate agreement in October, but has since been criticised for pushing ahead with a planned interoceanic canal, with its uncertain environmental effects. So how does it reconcile these apparently conflicting positions? Nicaragua and Syria were the only two countries not to sign […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, environment, climate change, interoceanic canal

Countries that are currently outside the Paris Climate Agreement

The US is out, Nicaragua’s in

October 3, 2017

While Donald Trump gives the appearance of wavering over his decision to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Nicaragua has decided to sign it. It was one of only two countries not to sign in Paris last year; the other was Syria. Nicaragua abstained out of principle: the agreement didn’t go far […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, climate change | 1 Response

Drawing water from the original well in Cuadrante 81

Solar-powered irrigation system starts to pump water

March 8, 2015

The ‘Agrosolar’ project, funded by the British embassy, has begun to pump water to irrigate crops right at the start of Nicaragua’s dry season. El Timal is in the almost forgotten area between Nicaragua’s two large lakes, only about 20km from the international airport but with practically no transport connections to the nearest town. Into […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Nicaragua, climate change, Masaya, solar energy

Remembering Felicita Zeledón: the woman who told the world about the tragedy at Posoltega

Remembering Felicita Zeledón: the woman who told the world about the tragedy at Posoltega

November 30, 2014

The untimely death of Felicita Zeledón, a member of the National Assembly, recalls the tragedy that hit the rural area of Posoltega on the morning of 30 October 1998. Zeledón, then mayor of the small town on the Leon-Chinandega highway, became the central figure in dealing with the biggest humanitarian crisis in Nicaragua since the […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, homelessness, climate change

Happy new year

Happy new year

August 19, 2014

We’re behaving as if we had 1.5 earths available to us, and our behaviour is getting worse. Every year the Global Footprint Network calculates the date on which people use up one year’s worth of the planet’s biocapacity. In 2013 we achieved this on 20 August. This year we’ve done it a day earlier. In […]

Category: Energy and the environment | Tags: environment, climate change, energy efficiency

Drought hits Central America

Drought hits Central America

August 7, 2014

The government is blaming it on the warming of the Pacific Ocean known as El Niño, while scientists are disputing how much warming has actually occurred. But whatever the cause the drought that has hit Central America and extends south into Colombia is very real. The rainy season should have begun in May, but three […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates, Energy and the environment | Tags: climate change, Masaya, solar energy, Nicaragua

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If we don’t put the environment high on our list of concerns, it will

March 13, 2014

This longer than usual post is one of a series of essays on policy themes published by the Chartered Institute of Housing. Since it was elected on the promise of becoming the ‘greenest government ever’, the Guardian’s green-o-meter has been monitoring the coalition’s progress. Back in early 2011, it was still doing pretty well, but […]

Category: Housing, Energy and the environment | Tags: environment, housing investment, climate change, Green Deal, energy efficiency

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