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Greening our Homes

Housing and energy experts gathered in Edinburgh in October 2009 to discuss neighbourhood approaches to making our homes more energy efficient. Home energy use accounts for one-third of Scotland's carbon emissions, so finding cheap, effective and popular ways to make all of Scotland's homes energy efficient is absolutely essential to meeting our climate change targets.

A new report from WWF Scotland and the Energy Agency, Achieving our potential - an analysis of area-based approaches to improving energy efficiency in Scottish homes, was presented, citing the many social, environmental and economic benefits of these schemes, as well as the effectiveness of a non-means tested approach in reaching the fuel poor.

David Adams, Knauf Insulation, gave detailed evidence of the scale of change needed to achieve our 42% reduction in emissions by 2020, while David Fotheringham, from the Scottish Government, offered an insight into current Government thinking on this problem.

There were a series of projects highlighted which showed how the Street by Street approach is effective in lifting people out of fuel poverty, reducing emissions and creating local jobs.
Retrofits: The role of area-based programmes in the Scottish Government’s approach to tackling climate change(David Fotheringham)
Area based retrofit for low carbon homes - Best approaches for Scotland (David Adams)
Community Powerdown - An Integrated Community Focused Approach to Area Based Retro-fit
Aberdeen Warm Zone - An Overview (Aberdeen City Council)
Achieving a low carbon future - An analysis of area-based approaches to improving Scottish homes (Energy Agency)