Warm Homes

Millions of vulnerable people in Britain live in cold homes that make them ill and cost a fortune to heat.

Spending time in a cold, damp house can make heart disease, strokes and flu more likely. And there's an increased risk of illness and death among older people, young children and those with a disability.

Homes with shoddy insulation and inefficient boilers don't just harm people's health and leak heat.

The wasted energy means tonnes of climate-changing emissions are needlessly pumped into the atmosphere. More than a quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from heating our homes and water.

Making our homes energy efficient is one of the cheapest and quickest ways to slash CO2 and help avoid dangerous climate change.

And a nationwide overhaul of our homes would:

Protect people's health.
Save families money on fuel bills.
Create tens of thousands of jobs.
Save the NHS millions of pounds.

Sounds like a good idea? It is. But it won't happen by itself.

What we're doing

Friends of the Earth's Warm Homes campaign is calling for the coldest two thirds of British homes to be improved.

We need to cut emissions from heat-leaking houses by 42 per cent this decade, to meet our legal targets for tackling climate change.

And tenants need special protection. Houses rented from a private landlord or through a letting agency are the most likely to be the worst insulated.