Climate activist group Architects Climate Action Network has launched Households Declare, a national UK campaign that aims to draw attention to and limit the carbon emissions released by households.
The Households Declare campaign intends to put pressure on the UK government in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 (COP 26), which will be held in Glasgow this October.
The campaign is asking households to sign a letter demanding the government takes action to achieve its net-zero targets and sets out a strategy to make existing UK housing stock more energy efficient.
The letter will be delivered to Alok Sharma, the government's COP 26 president, at the end of October.
The Households Declare campaign aims to help lower carbon emissions from households "There are 29 million homes in the UK, and these contribute almost 20 per cent of total UK emissions," said Sara Edmonds, coordinator of Existing Buildings Group at Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) and director of architecture firm Studio Search .
"That is a huge chunk of emissions that won't change without large amounts of financial and organisational investment," she told Dezeen.
ACAN urges UK government to focus on existing buildings
ACAN is using the campaign to urge the UK government to set out a national retrofit strategy that will help limit carbon emissions from UK housing stock and create a roadmap to a "zero-carbon future".
"This is urgent because 80 per cent of ...