Including the closely related terms fuel poverty, and poverty.
… residents quality of lives, by striving to end fuel poverty, improve the built environment to encourage the shift to active travel and making healthy plant based food accessible. Clear targets will be set with regular monitoring in place…
… are well insulated in Stevenage. This leads to high greenhouse gas emissions and unnecessarily high energy bills, with 8% of households in the area experiencing fuel poverty. Poor insulation contributes to this problem. Upgrading the insulation of 2,088 homes per year within the Stevenage area will ensure all homes are properly insulated by 2030, lifting as many people as possible out of fuel…
… by, a range of other issues and strategies including energy security, fuel poverty, climate adaptation and resilience. These strategies will need to be well integrated to reduce duplication, share resources and costs, and maximise co-benefits. For this reason, The Council, following Hertfordshire County Council, will be looking approach the climate emergency through three specific themes: Enable…
… poverty. There also needs to be a switch from gas central heating, which is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, to eco-heating or electric (renewably sourced), which does not burn fossil fuels. There are only 15 government funded eco-heating systems in the Stevenage area, yet the UK needs to fit around 1 million per year. A fair share for Stevenage would be fitting 1,387 eco-heating…