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The UK still needs to retrofit millions of homes. We can’t leave it up to the market, say experts.
Labour will not cut the £13.2 billion warm homes plan, as some expected. But issues remain.
Older homes are more at risk from bushfires. Retrofitting can make your house more likely to weather a fire.
Retrofit programs that improve home energy efficiency have become one of Canada’s main strategies to cut emissions in the housing sector. But do these programs deliver on their promises?
New infrared fabric technology is easy to install, cheap to run and affordable so it has huge potential as a future alternative to heat pumps, especially for retrofit projects.
One way to prevent the destruction wrought by a devastating earthquake – like the one that hit Morocco in September 2023 – is to construct resilient homes and buildings.
Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.
England’s housing strategy will consume our entire carbon budget by 2050 – there are alternatives, but they face political and economic barriers.
Tenants are rarely allowed to make permanent changes to a house. And many landlords know little about the conditions tenants endure, but most who do retrofit homes do it to improve renters’ comfort.
Before the pandemic, our cities had a simple plan: let population growth drive economic activity. But the world is changing and the perpetual growth mindset has to change with it.
North America’s 2021 extreme heat event should compel governments to scale innovations from leading cities and countries to advance resilient, restorative and renewable cities.
Almost 8 million Aussie homes lack sufficient insulation, use sub-par heating and cooling equipment, or are badly designed. These homes account for 18% of Australia’s emissions.
In the absence of a clear plan for affording the high costs of decarbonisation, it’s time for the UK Treasury to tax fossil fuel companies.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Behavioural Science, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey
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Professor of Development Planning and Urban Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture, Design and Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University
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Visiting senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
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Lecturer in Spatial Planning, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Fellow, MJ Wosk Centre for Dialogue; Executive Director, Renewable Cities, Simon Fraser University
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Professor and Deputy Director (Research), Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Nature Finance, University of Oxford