News Article - 23 May 2012
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Businesses keen to begin accounting for carbon emissions may be pleased to hear that one sector commentator has called on the government to look at energy efficiency as a key factor in ending fuel poverty.

Jonathon Stearn, a campaigner for Consumer Focus, claimed that the government failed to reduce fuel poverty because they have not made energy efficiency the key element in their approach.

He explained that all existing UK housing should be brought up to the same eco-standards as new builds, which would effectively "fuel poverty-proof" buildings.

"It can also reduce energy costs by 70 per cent thereby severing the dependence on energy companies," Mr Stearn added.

Liberal Democrat MP David Heath recently presented a bill which he hoped would end the issue of fuel poverty.

As it won second place in the annual ballot for private members bills, it may now have a good chance of becoming a law.

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