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- The UK's Climate Change Act goes on tour
- Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- Science demands we Get Serious About CO2
- Climate change reports and briefings round-up
- Under inspection
- Planning and the climate challenge
- Councils getting paid to generate green energy
- Bonn climate talks
- Key role for local councils if UK is to meet renewable energy targets
- Join the debate - Change trade not our climate
- Councils allowed to sell electricity
- The Robin Hood Tax
- Friends of the Earth in private meeting at UN
- Goodbye, de Boer
- Elementary, my dear Watson
- An evening of climate justice - London
- 100 days in and a long way to go
- Good Energy winter price freeze
- Big step forward for Warm Homes campaign
- Charities unite to protect tenants from cold
- One in three Brits too cold at home
- Insulating homes could save lives
- UK’s poorest left out in the cold by Government cuts
- Councils leading the way with green policies
- Councils petition Huhne for local action on climate
- Adios, amigos
- Big boost for Local Carbon Budgets campaign
UK's poorest left out in the cold by Government cuts22 October 2010
There was cold comfort for some of the UK's most vulnerable people in the comprehensive spending review - as the Chancellor slashed a home insulation scheme by more than two thirds.
The Government's Warm Front programme helped pensioners, young families and people on disability and other benefits make their homes more energy efficient.
More than 2 million homes have been improved in the past decade.
And householders have saved on average £650 a year on their energy bills.
Cutting this important scheme will hit the poorest hardest.
Insulating the homes of poorer families should have been stepped up in the spending review, not cut back.
We now need a comprehensive strategy to tackle fuel poverty more than ever. This must include a minimum energy efficiency standard for private rented homes to protect tenants.
Get involved
Friends of the Earth's Warm Homes campaign is calling for a new law in the Energy Bill.
We want the Bill to making it illegal to rent out the worst insulated, health-hazard properties from 2016 until they are improved.
© Julia Freeman-Woolpert
