Including 7 closely related terms such as efficiency, energy efficiency, and efficiency standards.
… activities will include: • Support the vulnerable and fuel-poor households with energy efficiency measures • Local Plans that supports sustainable development and climate change adaptation/mitigation • Guidance for businesses on adaptation to climate change • Work with businesses to understand and reduce their carbon footprints • Support town and parish councils to take action at a local level…
… Lincolnshire are rural in nature with high proportions of off-gas grid properties still reliant on solid-fuel systems. A range of initiatives will be required to educate and find solutions to alternative methods of heating residents’ homes. Challenges/Opportunities Currently all new developments must meet the energy efficiency standards required by UK Building Regulations. The Government is consulting…
… traction in the next few years. Strategic actions • Embed climate change mitigation and adaptation within strategic planning policies • Encourage and promote efficient use of energy in the home • Foster exemplar approaches to sustainable design and adaptive technologies • Support residents to access available funding to improve energy efficiency and reduce fuel poverty • Encourage a better…
… be a hierarchical approach to their management which seeks to eliminate them as far as possible, followed by carbon and energy reduction and then by substitution measures such as low-carbon alternatives like renewable energy. Compensation measures are then the final step once other options have been exhausted. These principles are best outlined in the IEMA Greenhouse Gas Management Hierarchy (updated 2020…
…): ELIMINATE • Influence business decisions / use to prevent GHG emissions across the lifecycle • Potential exists when organisations change, expand, rationalise or move business • Transition to new business model, alternative operation or new product/service REDUCE • Real and relative (per unit) reductions in carbon and energy • Efficiency in operations, processes, fleet and energy management…