Improving your home - A Climate Change Guide

Climate change is happening now. Hotter days, drier summers, heavy rain, storms and rising sea levels might mean that more homes are susceptible to flooding and our houses become very uncomfortable on hot days.


Thinking about making improvements to your home?

This Climate Change Guide suggests projects and 20 measures that you can do to make these improvements help tackle climate change - from converting your loft to changing the lights.

Whatever your DIY skills, budget or project, this Guide tells you what will make the biggest impact on cutting carbon dioxide (CO2), cutting your bills, and improving the comfort and safety of your home.

Simple ways you can help Wales reduce its carbon footprint

Over 40 per cent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the UK come directly from what we do as individuals - for example, heating and using electricity in our homes.

Generating Your Own Renewable Energy: A Planning Guide
 
These leaflets can help householders, communities and businesses who want to generate their own renewable energy. They provide information on what should be considered when installing a renewable energy technology, planning regulations and ways that any impacts can be reduced.

1.    Generating Your Own Energy – A Planning Guide for Homes, Communities and Businesses 
2A.  Generating Your Own Energy: Wind 
2B.  Generating Your Own Energy: Solar Electricity
2C.  Generating Your Own Energy: Solar Water 
2D.  Generating Your Own Energy: Hydropower 
2E.  Generating Your Own Energy: Biomass 
2F.  Generating Your Own Energy: Biomass (Anaerobic Digestion) 
2G.  Generating Your Own Energy: Combined Heat and Power 
2H.  Generating Your Own Energy: Heat Pumps 
3.    Generating Your Own Energy - The Current Planning Regulations (July 2010)