Sentences with phrase «serious energy efficiency policies»

In the longer term, we need to fuel - poverty - proof older households through much more serious energy efficiency policies and programmes, such as Warm Front in England and its equivalents in other parts of the UK

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Revising climate mitigation scenarios to account for rebound and to offer more realistic projections of future energy demand will have substantial implications for policy - makers and serious climate advocates, who have been told for years that 40 % or more of the mitigation challenge could be solved through greater energy efficiency.

Bush / Cheney has never seriously looked upon energy efficiency in vehicles as a serious solution — and because of the resultant growth in demand, that is the most substantive failure of their energy policy which puts the higher gas prices directly in their laps.

This is why governments need to pay serious attention to energy efficiency, encouraging policies that determine how well we use energy.

This Pollyanna view of fossil fuel alternatives and efficiency, which makes going green seem cheap and easy — little more than the cost of «a postage stamp a day» — has provided the justification for green - policy advocacy that has overwhelmingly focused on pollution regulations and carbon pricing while ignoring serious investment in energy research and development.

The best way to encourage conservation — and the true sign of a serious energy policy — would be imposing a hefty gasoline tax and raising mandatory fuel - efficiency standards.