El Gordo wants to set up a £60bn climate change fund to help poor countries come up with bullshit ways to deal with climate change. Meanwhile, BBC News is reporting this morning (on the TV but not on the website for some reason) that an extra half a million families could be forced into fuel poverty

THE steps needed to achieve ambitious climate change targets will push 1.7 million more people in the UK into fuel poverty, a report has revealed.

The government’s own “Fuel poverty” adviser has been on TV and radio telling us that we will have more people in fuel poverty this winter than at any time for the last ten years. Well, there’s a surprise! I wonder how much he and his staff get paid to

Geroge Monbiot is worrying about fuel poverty. It is, of course, George Mombiot who has been screaming loudly that energy must be made more expensive so that people use less of it in order to combat climate change. And, just to complete the loop, fuel poverty is increasing because the price of energy is going

Sheffield Liberal Democrats were today exposed for trying to cut a Labour scheme to invest in tackling fuel poverty. As part of the Council's Housing Revenue Account Business Plan, Labour have outlined plans to prioritise investment in heating systems, which are important in tackling fuel poverty a problem faced by many tenants in the current climate of high energy prices and fuel bills. As a...

It seems that official statistics on fuel poverty are two years in arears, as the BBC reports that a million more people fell into fuel poverty in 2006. The number of households in fuel poverty in the UK rose to 3.5 million in 2006, government figures show. The figures from the Department for Environment and the Department

With food and fuel prices rising by huge amounts we will hear much over the coming months about poverty and it will all concentrate on money. It is quite right that money should feature high on the poverty agenda because most definitions of poverty look at nothing else. My intention is to address the monetary side of poverty in a series of ramblings over the next few weeks, but today I want to cha...

Open Europe has produced the first independent estimate of the cost and wider effects of the EU's new package of climate change measures, currently under negotiation. The package, which sets a 20% target for overall emissions reduction by 2020, includes binding targets for 20% of energy to be sourced from renewables and for 10% of transport fuels to come from biofuels.

Select committee claims ministers are failing millions of vulnerable families and demands urgent action on fuel poverty The government was today urged to offer more help to the millions of families in fuel poverty due to rising energy prices. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee said ministers had failed to meet statutory obligations to end fuel poverty and called on them to se...

In opposition Nick Clegg campaigned against fuel poverty (yes, he really did, for instance see here and here and here). The Mail (h/t GWPF) is highlighting that "More than five million households in England alone are living in fuel poverty as incomes stagnate and energy bills soar", explaining that "fuel poverty is where a family spends more than 10 per cent of its income on energy". Ministers are...