Declarations of Climate Emergency at national and local level have helped to sharpen people's focus on the need to act now to tackle climate change. Action will mean accelerating the pace at which we...
I just wanted to say a special thank you to you for your support with these events. I have really enjoyed working with you and think I have learnt a lot as well. Even though we had the coronavirus come in and upset our plans we managed to turn it around and host two great online meetings which are very different to others available at the moment. I hope we can work together again soon.
One of the advantages of reflecting back over time – as we’re doing in this series of blogs to celebrate our tenth birthday – is that you can see which things were short-term fads and which were long-term structural challenges.
Turning 10 has been a great opportunity for us to stand back and appreciate just how much we’ve done and how broad our reach has been. Following on from Liz’s first (brilliant) birthday blog on Telling the Story of Retrofit, it’s my turn now to turn the spotlight on how we’ve helped to shape national, regional and local policy over the last ten years.
Last week, I had the privilege of speaking with some of those responsible for local delivery of fuel poverty schemes, people who are really transforming the everyday lives of many of the most vulnerable people in our society.
You don’t need to work in the energy sector to know that more and more people are experiencing fuel poverty, forced to choose between spending a large percentage of their income on heating or living in a cold home.
I was at the Kensington and Chelsea Poverty Watch meeting today, to see a presentation from the Public Health Nutrition Team about food poverty. My interest was the overlap between food poverty and fuel poverty – eating and heating – and to understand more about the everyday choices that low income and vulnerable householders have to make.