Energy efficient buildings
What Scotland needs to do to achieve energy efficient homes.
Author / Creator: Chris Morgan
Media type: Policy Paper
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Energy effciency in housing needs to address...a wider range of issues...to solve a broader range of problems such as fuel poverty and bottlenecks due to under-capacity in the National Grid.
21 For 21: The Climate Change Actions Scotland Needs Now
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
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21 Policies that would enable Scotland to meet our responsibilities as laid out by the 2021 IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
Scottish Building Regulations: Review of Energy Standards
Author / Creator: Linda Pearson
Media type: consultation response
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All new buildings in Scotland should be constructed to passive and zero-carbon standards. All buildings should be surveyed immediately and assessed on their maximum feasible retrofitting potential. They should then be scheduled to be retrofitted to that potential in a single project.
Energy Performance Certificates: An Alternative Approach
Author / Creator: Keith Baker
Media type: Policy Paper
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There is an urgent need to understand the highly significant uncertainties around both the ratings and the appropriateness of the improvements recommended by EPC assessments. The alternative approach is based on the fundamental principle of maximising the use of real data in order to provide buyers and tenants with accurate, robust, relevant, and useful information.
The Future of Low Carbon Heat For Off-Gas Buildings
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
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The primary barrier to the roll-out of low carbon heat is financial. Efficient schemes will have to be government financed. Biofuels may play a significant role in rural heating where they can seamlessly replace off-grid heating without the need to install new infrastructure.
The Common Home Plan – Technical Report
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
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This Technical Report is an annex to The Common Home Plan, a part of Our Common Home – A Green New Deal for Scotland. The fact that this book represents the broadest and most detailed Green New Deal blueprint yet published for any country means that it covers a great many of topics in detail and thus draws upon a vast body of literature and other previously published work.
The Common Home Plan
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
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There are a number of policy tools which can be used to encourage transformative changes to our lifestyles. However, it should be noted that most of these policy tools are designed to enact structural change rather than individual change and, again, it must not be read that these can simply be introduced into a free market economy as if they will succeed in shifting those markets. They won't, at least not as a result of individual behaviours. The Plan details the the changes needed.