Due to the recent cold snap, I have realised that it is about time I put in cavity wall insulation. However I would like someone else to pay for it. Is there value for me putting in insulation, apart from in my bills? I am thinking of a transport company (e.g. airline) which is carbon neutral. I would settle for a nominal payment, for the installation, so I have a comeback on the installation company.
Sounds like want you cake and eat it - and then sue!!
I did some searching, and found this:
A Google search will show you if there are any schemes locally that electricity companies and local councils are promoting.
There is also:
All insulation has an R value.
Is that like flossing for framing?
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In my experience this is done free for people who qualify for a 100% grant, and for those who don't there is a 40% subsidy so that the householder pays
60%.You have lost me there. Why should an airline pay you for insulating your home?
Because he's saving CO2 emissions, they can pay him to have the use of his saved emissions, so they can emit them. This will save the planet.
That might be relevant if the government had set up a scheme for trading carbon credits. Although this has been much talked about, AFAIK no-one has actually implemented it yet.
Adam
An airline can't be carbon neutral by emitting large amounts of carbon and then paying someone not to emit as much as they would have done if they hadn't been paid. The only way anybody can realistically claim to be carbon neutral when emitting carbon is by paying someone to take carbon out of the atmosphere and permanently sequestering it. Anything else like
Yes, I would call this New Labour thinking.
I don't think individuals can yet do emissions trading - at least not in the way you want to. You can buy and sell units though.
If you can persuade your government to give you carbon units in return for your cutting emissions then you could sell those credits in the market like shares...
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