Sentences with phrase «says fuel poverty»

The Green Party says fuel poverty is causing a high number of winter deaths due to people living in the cold.

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Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

Adam said: «The causes, and the solutions, for fuel poverty are well known.

Claire said: «It has never been more important to focus on alleviating fuel poverty in the UK and I am delighted to be joining Warm Zones at such a crucial time.

Chris Train, Director UK Gas Distribution, National Grid said: «National Grid isn't just taking part in the fuel poverty debate because we can.

Maria Wardrobe, Director of External Affairs, NEA said: «Fuel poverty is now at crisis levels affecting 4.5 million UK households.

But it's still nowhere near the figures they are projecting, I think, for this,» he said, noting the 29 % reduction from fuel poverty spending by the Association for the Conservation of Energy's data.

But Rosenow said that the total number of households in fuel poverty was around 5 million.

Jenny Saunders OBE, Chief Executive of National Energy Action (NEA), the national fuel poverty charity and one of the award scheme judges said «Coordinated action at a local level is key to helping the estimated 2.2 million households in living in fuel poverty in our communities and there is a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion amongst not for profit organisations seeking to address this problem across England.

As the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome said, fuel poverty occurs across the country, in urban areas as well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and families.

In an intervention, the Minister said that she was concerned that the Bill advanced an «absolutist position», yet the Government's target was to abolish all fuel poverty by 22 November 2016.

As the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Stephen Pound) has just said, the passion it generates is equally strong among Members in all parts of the House; Members in all parties are extremely concerned about fuel poverty and serious in their efforts to combat it.

Maria Wardrobe, Director of External Affairs at NEA said: «The Conference is being held during what is a critical time for households in fuel poverty.

It says that families in fuel poverty are facing an income shortfall of up to # 9000 per year.

Adding levies to consumer energy bills is regressive, because it hurts the poor more than the rich, fuel poverty campaigners say.

This line was attached by Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS, who said rising poverty was in part fuelled by the strict pay deals imposed on low paid public sector workers.

Tony Woodley, Unite the union joint general secretary, said the Chancellor had gone some way to tackling the issues of fuel poverty but he had missed an opportunity to levy a windfall tax on the excess energy company profits.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map&raqFuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map&Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map&raqfuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map&poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

Higher energy prices coupled with rising unemployment could push hundreds of thousands more homes into fuel poverty, a group of influential government advisors has said.

Elizabeth Gore, Deputy Director at Energy Action Scotland said: «What the Fuel Poverty Monitor shows is that fuel poverty policy is in crisis across theFuel Poverty Monitor shows is that fuel poverty policy is in crisis across Poverty Monitor shows is that fuel poverty policy is in crisis across thefuel poverty policy is in crisis across poverty policy is in crisis across the UK.

«Winter fuel payments should be taken from rich pensioners and the cash used to tackle fuel poverty, MPs say.

The Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Steve Webb said: «The government can not just abdicate responsibility for fuel poverty.

Free personal care and the help with fuel poverty will bring «welcome relief for some of the poorest and most vulnerable older people», said joint charity Age Concern and Help the Aged.

The findings also point to growing fuel poverty and increasing reliance on food banks, with nearly one in four (24 per cent) of those losing out because of the cuts saying they would cut back on heating and 23 per cent on food.

The government's adviser on fuel poverty says the controversial method of extracting shale gas, known as fracking, could reduce energy prices for some of Britain's poorest people.

The government's adviser on fuel poverty says the method could reduce energy prices for some of Britain's poorest people.

Summing up, he says that in his view other real - time problems, particularly global poverty, trump whatever long - term risk is posed by man - made warming, and that the slow natural pace of society's shift away from dirty fuels like coal toward cleaner ones will take care of the problem in any case.

Fuel poverty has «come of age» in the last 3 years and great strides have been made in understanding the scale of the problem, Christine Liddell, professor of psychology at Ulster University, said in her keynote address to the Energy Action conference in Dublin Castle on Monday, 6 February.

If fossil power is cheap enough that there are only x % households in fuel poverty (Wiki: In the UK, fuel poverty is said to occur when in order to heat its home to an adequate standard of warmth a household needs to spend more than 10 % of its income to maintain an adequate heating regime), but the alternative carbon - free power increases the percentage of households by 10 % there are negative consequences to not using fossil power.

Kim defended World Bank policies that permit investments in fossil fuels in developing nations in rare cases, saying it was often for power plants to supply electricity vital to help end poverty.

That isn't to say that increasing energy access wouldn't improve infant mortality rates — so the two issues aren't mutually exclusive, but as always, the simplistic reductionism so often seen in these threads of fossil fuels = long life and an end to poverty and the associated alternative energy = billions dying and starving is, well, simplistic reductionism.

This says that it is at least arguable that investing in fossil fuels could be said to be irreconcilable with the intentions behind charities concerned with the environment, health, poverty reduction, and «the consequences of dangerous climate change».

«Right from the outset, community members wanted energy efficient houses, because there's a real problem with fuel poverty locally,» says Helen MacDonald, MICT's local development officer.

That said, the case for fuel poverty is not supported by the evidence in Europe or in the Americas; there are some valid African and Asian national cases, but they by and large have little to do with excess winter deaths.

... He went on to say that wind turbines had devastated «the very wilderness that the «green blob» claims to love, with new access tracks cut deep into peat, boosted production of carbon - intensive cement, and driven up fuel poverty, while richly rewarding landowners».

Energy and Climate Change secretary Ed Davey says these proposals are «a radical shift» away from old policies of «tinkering at the edges» without tackling fuel poverty's root causes — homes that are too energy inefficient to be kept warm on a budget.

We can say with some certainty, then, that the emphasis that the government and FoE have put on fuel poverty have been little but token gestures.

Of the 27,000 «excess deaths» that occur each winter when compared to deaths which occur in the summer, 10 % of them can be attributed to fuel poverty, says the Hill Report published yesterday by DECC itself.