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Raising the standards

In Scotland 1 in 3 households live in
fuel poverty and 7% of homes are rates F or G - the lowest energy ratings.

Under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, greenhouse gas emissions in Scotland must be reduced by 42% by 2020 and 80% by 2050.
Housing accounts for 25% of Scotland's carbon emissions.

CAG's report on minimum standards of energy performance for Scottish homes has been published by WWF.

Written in collaboration with Houghton Research, Maximising the Minimum: The need for minimum energy performance standards in private housing sets out the case for robust minimum standards. It is being used by WWF Scotland to campaign for a step change in the pace and scale of improving the energy efficiency of Scottish homes.

Our report states that 'there is a need to gear up for a large scale programme of whole-house energy packages, facilitated and incentivised by the Green Deal and other support, but backed by regulation which will play a key role in driving emissions reductions.'

We recommend that from 2015, all homes being sold or rented which fall into bands F and G on the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) should be required to uprate to band E or above. The report sets out the implications of such regulation, explores the practicalities of enforcing them and sets out a series of detailed recommendations for Scottish Government.

Download the report here:

For more information about this work contact Tim Maiden on 0191 224 1390 or tm@cagconsult.co.uk.

WWF-Scotland