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Hertford-based Riversmead Housing Association has called for “considerable changes” to Government’s Green Deal scheme, to help it support the poorest of its tenants.
Under the Green Deal, householders deemed as most in need of home improvements like loft and wall insulation in order to reduce energy bills, will be able to apply for money from a new Affordable Warmth Target fund.
However, the money will only be available to those who own or rent their home privately despite some of the cash originally coming affordable housing tenants’ energy bills.
The Affordable Warmth Target is an obligation on energy suppliers to reduce the heating bills of those most vulnerable to cold.
Riversmead’s Director of Housing Services, Chris Wright, said: “While we agree with the key principles of the Government’s Green Deal proposal, we feel that considerable changes are needed to make sure social rented tenants are not excluded.
2012 is set to be a monumental year for Britain. Of course we are looking forward to the diamond jubilee and the Olympics, but it’s also the year in which we’ll launch the pioneering green deal, unleashing real competitive forces in the energy efficiency market.
Attracting more investment than ever before, the green deal will be the biggest home energy improvement programme of modern times, to tackle our draughty and expensive-to-heat housing stock.
In a world of increasing prices, market volatility and reliance on imports, we simply cannot afford to be wasteful with energy. Our homes are among the most inefficient in Europe and up to 4.1m households live in fuel poverty in England alone.
The time has come for a radical new approach to home energy improvement, moving away from pepper potting individual measures to whole house or property solutions.
On Tuesday we’re launching a YouTube video to explain the massive opportunity the green deal presents to industry and to businesses and people managing their energy bills. The vision is an ambitious and far-reaching one, putting the consumer in charge, with nationwide brands, small local businesses and community organisations competing to deliver the best offers. Competing not just on price but on quality and service and all underpinned by the highest standards.
The first official system for assessing a product’s carbon footprint has been eagerly awaited. But does it make working out the numbers any easier?
UK companies for the first time have an official yardstick to work out the carbon footprint of their products, according to the British Standards Institution, the UK government and the Carbon Trust.
The long-awaited measurement framework is designed to calculate a product’s carbon footprint from “cradle to grave” – the total greenhouse gas emissions over its lifecycle, from sourcing, production and storage to its sale, use and disposal.
BSI, a UK standards-setter, developed the system in consultation with 72 businesses, including footprinting pioneers such as PepsiCo UK and Boots. BSI was commissioned to produce the methodology by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Carbon Trust, which advises companies on how to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The new yardstick, technically a “publicly available specification”, is called PAS2050. It is a government guideline for measuring carbon footprints, not a carbon footprinting standard.
The UK’s newly created Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) recommends that companies use the guidelines to locate carbon intensive hotspots in their supply chains.
Video conferencing in the NHS is not only saving staff and patients time and money but is making inroads into the organisation’s huge carbon footprint.
The carbon footprint of NHS England was calculated to be 21m tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2010 – more than some entire countries. Among the measures proposed in last year’s NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy to address this issue was a reduction in travel-related greenhouse gas emissions, which account for about a fifth of the total. The figure is so high because, traditionally, clinical processes require patients and staff to meet face to face.
But a pilot scheme run by the NHS N3 network – the secure broadband service that connects 1.3 million NHS employees in England and Scotland – has already cut business mileage and emissions by providing high definition video conferencing as an alternative to traditional meetings.
N3′s Managed Video Conferencing Service, launched last year, has already achieved savings of more than £1m in the pilot trusts and reduced the NHS’s greenhouse gas emissions by 150 tonnes. Video conferencing is used to link staff and patients remotely, and has been of particular use in connecting consultants working in multidisciplinary teams, such as cancer networks or stroke clinics.
QHotels, the group of 21 four-star hotels, has been named as the top hotel group in the first Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) league table, published by the Environment Agency.
It is the second ranked hospitality company after Center Parcs and 30th out of more than 2,000 British listed organisations which have been analysed for their energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
QHotels’ managing director and chair of its corporate and social responsibility steering group, Michael Purtill, said the ranking was a superb recognition of the company’s commitment to energy management.
“As a group, we are very aware of the business benefits and opportunities associated with performance in the area, as the green credentials of venues are increasingly informing the decisions of our leisure customers and conference, meetings and events organisers,” he said.
King’s Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is the country’s number one when it comes to carbon reduction – according to a league table published this week.
The Environment Agency’s Carbon Reduction Commitment league tables show the hospital trust continues to lead more than 1,300 participants in the scheme as a thoroughly ‘green’ organisation.
The trust shares joint top place with 22 other companies, departments, clubs and trade bodies from across the country, including the Department of Energy, three other NHS Trusts – and Manchester United football club.
To take first place in the league table the trust has had to demonstrate a continuing commitment to carbon reduction.
Last year, following year-on-year reductions, carbon emissions from the QEH amounted to 7,334 tonnes of carbon dioxide which compared to a carbon footprint for the Trust in 2007-08 of more than 25,000 tonnes.
Kirklees Council has been named Yorkshire’s most energy efficient authority.
The accolade has come from the Environment Agency.
And council leader Mehboob Khan says it’s proof they are taking their pledge to cut their carbon footprint very seriously.
Kirklees Council scored the highest of all the Yorkshire authorities in an Environment Agency league table ranking organisations according to how they manage energy use under the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme.
And it was ranked 14th out of all the participating local UK authorities who took part in the scheme.
ASDA has joined the Freight Transport Association’s Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme which now represents more than 50,000 commercial vehicles.
Chris Hall, national transport manager for ASDA, said: “We continue to drive the focus into producing fewer, friendlier and cheaper miles and are delighted to be involved in this scheme. The opportunity to use this scheme to further develop our collaborative relationships in the industry and to set our agenda in relation to fleets and fuels of the future is vitally important.”
Members of the scheme provide fuel usage, fleet and activity data to help paint an accurate picture of the carbon footprint of the logistics sector.
Scheme members commit at a senior director level to participate in the scheme and to have their data independently verified by the FTA as part of the reporting process.