Category: Environment

How can home energy efficiency improvements help us reach net zero?

Improving residential energy efficiency can be a cost-effective way to tackle the current energy crisis, increase energy security and mitigate climate change. Significant variations in the efficiency of homes across the country raise the question of how retrofitting should be implemented to maximise impact. In this article published by the Economics Observatory, Ella Benoit, Mirko

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Can Mortgage Lenders Help Green the Housing Stock?

Shona Matthews presented yesterday on her paper “Could lenders insulate Britain?: The potential of the annual mortgage statement as a trigger to motivate homeowners to make thermal efficiency home improvements.” Shona Matthews is a very worthy winner of the Keep Scotland Beautiful award for the dissertation that best promotes sustainability. Read more about the event

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Keep Scotland Beautiful award presentation

Congratulations to centre member Shona Matthews who is recipient of the Keep Scotland Beautiful award. This prize, generously sponsored by environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful, is awarded to the MSc dissertation that best promotes sustainability. Shona will present her dissertation on February 8th at 2pm in Campus Central 3.04, where she will also receive her

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