Given the high energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions associated with
buildings worldwide, sustainable strategies that provide conscious use of natural resources …

Home energy retrofit has been a publicly-funded policy in many countries since the 1990s.
Government motivations have spanned from combating energy poverty to climate action and …

Home energy retrofit is distinctive as a low carbon policy option because it often requires
collaboration between private households and public policy in the deeply personal …

The ten questions posed in this paper stand out among others after six years of joint and
collaborative research, by the authors, on sustainable domestic thermal retrofit policy. This is …

Rapidly scaling up energy retrofit for existing buildings is critical to help meet climate targets.
Information is frequently identified as a key barrier to residential retrofit. This paper explores …

The UK government's Clean Growth Strategy unambiguously described the decarbonisation
of heat as the UK's greatest policy and technical challenge in meeting our carbon targets …

This paper explores why domestic energy policies, thermal retrofitting and the operation of
domestic energy-efficient technologies are often met with social inertia in practice. Two sets …

The Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal are calls to action for
countries around the world, and especially for the member states of the European Union, to …

Abstract Energy Efficient Scotland (EES) is the Scottish Government's flagship programme
for the national-scale retrofitting of buildings over the next 15–20 years. This is a critical …

The energy efficient retrofit of existing building stocks can help to address various social,
economic and environmental objectives. As the most cost-effective and least disruptive …