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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: climate change, energy efficiency, housing investment

The Budget was a kick-start, but we need to accelerate on home energy upgrades

The Budget was a kick-start, but we need to accelerate on home energy upgrades

July 9, 2020

In his summer statement Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced over £3 billion of funding to create green jobs, most of it focussing on the private sector where a Green Homes Grant will pay £2 for every £1 spent by owners or landlords on energy efficiency, up to a limit of £5,000. For those on low incomes, […]

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

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: climate change, energy efficiency

Addressing fuel poverty in the UK

November 2, 2014

In 2014 there are estimated to be 2.3 million households living in fuel poverty in the UK 1 – and more than 3 million families 2 are likely to cut back on food this winter to pay their fuel bills. Housing has a huge role to play in improving those statistics. By far the biggest […]

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

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

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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

Energy efficiency - are government policies working?

Energy efficiency – are government policies working?

August 16, 2013

The government wants homes to be energy efficient and to cut fuel poverty – but are its policies working? It sometimes feels that there is more heat than light in government policies on energy efficiency.  The wholesale changes made by the coalition mean that it’s been difficult to work out what impact policies are having. […]

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

Home thoughts on the Green Deal

October 2, 2012

Housing bodies should be in the lead in driving towards the government’s carbon emission targets, but energy efficiency has fallen down their agenda. They must make the most of the government’s new Green Deal.

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

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