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Our homes are responsible for a quarter of the UK’s carbon footprint, and there is now cross-party political support for urgent action to make them much more sustainable.

Improving the energy efficiency of our existing housing stock is one of…

Matthew Rees and Phillip Morris, from the Centre for Sustainable Energy,  report on the first of 15 retrofits in Bath of hard to treat properties with solid wall insulation and renewable energy measures.

The Bath and Bristol city region has a particularly high proportion of hard-to-treat solid-walled properties ( around 50% of the homes in Bristol) which aren’t currently suitable for mainstream insulation schemes.

But the UK Government won’t meet its tough carbon reduction targets without addressing these so called hard to treat solid wall properties.

This March 2010 report from WWF explores the big opportunities for the UK economy presented by a large-scale carbon-saving retrofit programme.

You can download the full report from thw WWF website here.