Fixing fuel poverty - challenges and solutions
- When?
- Thursday 25 March 2010, 13:00
- Where?
- 45B AZ 04
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Dr Brenda Boardman, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
While fuel poverty is often seen as a social problem, the solution is to improve the energy efficiency of the home,
providing strong synergies with climate change policy.
Meanwhile over 5m households are suffering from fuel poverty in the UK. Large sums of money are spent to reduce the problem, for instance on winter fuel payments, though these were insufficient to prevent a 49% increase in excess winter deaths in 2008-9. This is an interdisciplinary problem with a strong political presence.
A PDF of the presentation is available:
Brenda Boardman Presentation (221.06KB - Requires Adobe Reader)
