Home improvements could save 7m tonnes of carbon
Nov 14, 2006
British householders could save billions of pounds on fuel bills as well as saving millions of tonnes of carbon by installing environmentally-friendly home improvements such as cavity wall insulation, government research shows.
A new report from the Review of the Sustainability of Existing Buildings estimated that the widespread use of improvements such as loft insulation, cavity wall insulation and emerging technologies such as heat pumps could help the UK to save around seven million tonnes of carbon per year. Housing minister Yvette Cooper said that householders needed to be given more information and support in order to change their homes.
She added that existing homes and businesses provided some of the most cost effective ways to cut national carbon emissions and that the technology needed to be developed to support Victorian terraces and sixties tower blocks as well as modern homes.
Government figures show that the take-up of cavity wall insulation has increased from 20 per cent of the UK's houses in 1996 to 36 per cent in 2003, while the number of homes with over 150mm of loft insulation increased by four million between 2001 and 2004.
Home improvements are one of the most common reasons for taking out a personal loan, with government figures indicating that cavity wall insulation could pay for itself in 2.6 years and loft insulation in 2.7 years.
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