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Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council

…/kb5/calderdale/fsd/service.page?id=IaiBuySXtCA https://cffc.co.uk/climate-emergency-carbon-zero-fund/ DRAFT Our Themes and Key Actions WARM AND RESILIENT BUILDINGS 51% of Calderdale’s emissions come from our buildings. Our heating systems are a big part of the problem – we mostly use fossil-fuel gas boilers. Buildings often also have low levels of insulation which means…

…-emergency-carbon-zero-fund/ https://cffc.co.uk/climate-emergency-carbon-zero-fund/ DRAFT Trusted Advice There is a lot we can do to lower our home’s carbon footprint. There are simple energy efficiency actions such as turning the heating down, installing heating controls and buying energy-efficient appliances. The Energy Saving Trust has lots of great advice. Working Together…

… that buildings can be draughty and expensive to run. Every home in the borough needs to be warm, resilient and low carbon. This can only happen if we work hard – and quickly – to insulate thousands of homes by 2038 and move away from gas boilers to technology like heat pumps and district heating. Investment in home energy efficiency is urgent and has many benefits: affordable heating, job creation…

… and improved health and wellbeing for example. Retrofitting Our Buildings Getting every building in the borough to an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of C or above is a huge challenge. Many of our homes leak heat because they were built when heating worked differently, when gas was cheaper and before we understood the impact of burning fossil fuels. Overcoming this challenge will mean our…

… Net Zero1, it’s clear a one-size-fits-all approach won’t work. Working Together The Climate Action Partnership will develop a fair retrofit strategy covering the range of building types and tenures across the borough. We will start this strategy in 2022. It will look at the issues people are facing with affordable heat to find solutions that don’t leave anyone behind. The strategy will also…