Sentences with phrase «with fuel poverty»

«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.

Keeping Kids Cosy is a new project designed to help families with young children who are struggling with fuel poverty.

«I want to see proper environmental safeguards and generous community benefits for the areas where fracking will take place, but does my right hon. Friend agree that shale gas has the potential not only to lead an industrial renaissance in this country but to play a serious part in dealing with 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.

As you may know, the Act enables councils working in co-operation with their communities to get Government help to assist them in reversing the decline of local services, dealing with fuel poverty, protecting the environment and obtaining greater involvement in civic activity.

Not exact matches

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».

FPEEG, the All - Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systFuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating sPoverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systfuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating spoverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systfuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating spoverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systems.

With the weather getting colder and winter approaching fast, national fuel poverty charity NEA is urging all older people to take action now to ensure they are warm and comfortable in their homes.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special paymefuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special papoverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special paymeFuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special paPoverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payments.

Learn more about fuel poverty facts, the work we are doing to tackle this problem and how you can work with us to help bring affordable warmth and comfort to individuals across the UK.

Find out more about the energy challenge and how National Grid is helping find solutions to some of the challenges we face at www.nationalgridconnecting.com The National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel poverty and deliver energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving awards.

This popular campaign called for the Government to impose a levy on the Big Six, with funds raised ring - fenced to help people with their energy costs, prioritizing those living in fuel poverty, by making homes more energy efficient (amongst other things).

It will provide at least one not for profit agency in each of the four National Grid Gas Distribution Areas with up to # 100k funding to design and deliver a project bringing tangible and lasting benefits to low - income households in fuel poverty.

Or take a family with two incomes, perhaps not well - paid but not currently in fuel poverty.

With the Government currently consulting on a new fuel poverty strategy for England, the next few weeks present the most significant opportunity in over a decade to influence how those in fuel poverty will be assisted in the future.

With so many households already in fuel poverty, how can they justify more prise rises?

Background on the Warm Front and the successor scheme: Since 2000, when the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme was re-branded as Warm Front, with substantial additional funding and the introduction of heating measures to supplement insulation works, the scheme has formed a major element in fuel poverty policy.

Those living with mental health problems are often prone to fuel poverty as individuals are often on low or fixed incomes, living in energy inefficient housing and spend more time at home thus have above average energy use.

In the Government's own words «These are the lowest SAP ratings, and tend to reflect the least energy efficient properties or those with the most expensive heating systems» [Annual Fuel Poverty Statistics Report, 2014].

«NEA will work with its members and partners across the country in coming weeks to ensure the voices of the fuel poor are heard through the consultation period on the Government's Fuel Poverty Strategy and to ensure the policies and programmes that underpin it are properly resourced and are deliverafuel poor are heard through the consultation period on the Government's Fuel Poverty Strategy and to ensure the policies and programmes that underpin it are properly resourced and are deliveraFuel Poverty Strategy and to ensure the policies and programmes that underpin it are properly resourced and are deliverable.

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.

The Fuel Poverty Monitor, written by experts from the UK's leading fuel poverty charities National Energy Action and Energy Action Scotland with support from not - for - profit energy company Ebico, is unique in presenting an overview of the different problems and potential solutions experienced in the individual natiFuel Poverty Monitor, written by experts from the UK's leading fuel poverty charities National Energy Action and Energy Action Scotland with support from not - for - profit energy company Ebico, is unique in presenting an overview of the different problems and potential solutions experienced in the individual nPoverty Monitor, written by experts from the UK's leading fuel poverty charities National Energy Action and Energy Action Scotland with support from not - for - profit energy company Ebico, is unique in presenting an overview of the different problems and potential solutions experienced in the individual natifuel poverty charities National Energy Action and Energy Action Scotland with support from not - for - profit energy company Ebico, is unique in presenting an overview of the different problems and potential solutions experienced in the individual npoverty charities National Energy Action and Energy Action Scotland with support from not - for - profit energy company Ebico, is unique in presenting an overview of the different problems and potential solutions experienced in the individual nations.

In Scotland, the longer heating season and consequent higher energy costs exacerbate the scale of fuel poverty and emphasise the need for additional support for households in Scotland in terms of both energy efficiency funding and support with fuel costs.

Mr Hutton concluded: «I do not underestimate the difficulties and anxiety that rising energy prices can cause but I believe that this extra cash, coupled with ensuring we have the most competitive market possible, will help us toward our goal of eradicating fuel poverty in the UK.»

The Winter Wellbeing Partnership, led by Cornwall Council and including 30 partners, has secured over # 3.5 m from National Grid's Warm Homes Fund to work with thousands of people to stay warmer for less and be lifted out of fuel poverty.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

Around 36,000 homes in Cornwall are in fuel poverty, with Cornwall in the top 10 of fuel poor areas in the country.

A big «Invest to Save» in Health Prevention an injection of invest to save funding to tackle our biggest population challenges, in particular obesity, fuel poverty, employment for those with health problems and harm from alcohol, as part of a wider locally led health and wellbeing plan

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.

«Fuel poverty» among low - income families has increased, testifying to life on a low - income with rising bills and an inadequate everyday standard of living.

The World Bank and other aid agencies struggles with the question of fossil fuels and energy poverty

The National Energy Foundation is also offering free training to frontline staff who work with families in fuel poverty, including health and social care professionals.

Financial poverty often goes hand in hand with poverty of experience, and as well as the obvious educational value of the visits, children build a rich bank of experiences that fuel their imagination, build their self - confidence, raise their aspirations and enhance their vocabulary.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

Emissions globally are set to go through the roof because developing countries are trying to grow their way out of poverty, and in the process they are fueling that growth with today's carbon - hungry technologies.

Thankfully the shale boom stifled such US fuel poverty that is seen throughout Europe and now Australia thanks to «unreliable» energy — wind and solar — subsidised at 110 — 400 % in order to compete with hydrocarbon based fuels.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

Fuel poverty is growing rapidly and aggressively with some 5.4 million UK homes living in under heated, poorly lit homes.

A. Worldwide, and for hundreds of years since the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuel use is and has been associated with higher economic growth, GDP, incomes, wages, health, life expectancy, population, and reduced poverty.

The MSMs eventually picked up the stories and their investigative journalists started delving into the scandal to reveal yet many more skeletons, and whipping up a general hysteria among the general public because of the lies that had been told to them in order to justify policies which caused the rape of our countryside with thousands of ugly wind turbines, which caused the numbers of people in fuel poverty to increase by five fold in only a couple of years and which caused many energy dependant jobs to be permanently exported.

For example — We deny that alternative, renewable fuels can, with present or near - term technology, replace fossil and nuclear fuels, either wholly or in significant part, to provide the abundant, affordable energy necessary to sustain prosperous economies or overcome poverty.

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».

With these people on your side how can the warmist be losing the climate adjustment battle and the hearts of minds of the fuel poverty peons.

As a result, «fuel poverty» has become a big problem for low income families; the government has to subsidize German industry so that it does not move abroad; and German companies now invest much more abroad than in Germany, - The German government is struggling with these problems, the country is going downhill very fast, but Angela Merkel continues to try and cure the country with more aspirins.

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.

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The majority of the worlds population living in extreme poverty with a lot of the renewables use being more environment destroying dung burning and deforestation for wood fuel.

... 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».

My current research interests are in hydrogeological systems in glacial environments, and sustainability - related work ranging from the use of knowledge networks in communities for energy reduction, strategies for fuel poverty mitigation, and sustainability education, with particular emphasis on the link between employability and sustainability and the role of sustainability in organisations.

And then there's the entirely valid point rightwingers (suddenly uncharacteristically concerned with the poor) make about fuel poverty: any carbon tax will hit the poor hardest.