Here are a selection of key reports and projects that focus on how to deliver deep cuts in the carbon emissions from the UK’s existing housing.

• Low Carbon Existing Homes UK-GBC Releases new report.



• Building a greener Britain: Transforming the UK's Existing housing Stock. (Federation of Master Builders: Report written by Gavin Killip, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford).



• How Low? Achieving optimal carbon savings from the UK's existing housing stock. (WWF-UK: Report written by: Centre for Sustainable Energy, Association for the Conservation of Energy & Dr Richard Moore for WWF-UK, March 2008).

• Existing Housing & Climate Change, House of Commons Communities & Local Government Select Committee, Seventh Report of Session 2007-8, The Stationary Office, April 2008.

• Home Truths: A Low Carbon Strategy to Reduce UK Housing Emissions by 80% by 2050 (Brenda Boardman, University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute. A research report for the Co-operative Bank and Friends of the Earth, Nov 2007).

• Stock Take: Delivering Improvements in Existing Housing (Sustainable Development Commission, July 2006).

• Old Home, SuperHome (A network of exemplar, low carbon energy efficient old dwellings, designed to be local and publicly accessible within 15 minutes of nearly everyone in the country)

• Generation Homes (A project to establish a systematic approach to reducing carbon emissions by more than 60% in social housing, through major whole-street refurbishment work.)
  
  
• Energy Heritage: A guide to improving energy efficiency in traditional and historic homes (Changeworks, May 2008. In-depth guidance for householders and professionals published by sustainable development organisation Changeworks, written in collaboration with building conservation bodies, planning departments, architects, housing providers and householders)
  
  
• 'One Planet Living in the Suburbs', funded by WWF and written by Anna Francis (BioRegional) and Joanna Wheeler (WWF), November 2006