Building Sustainable Homes and Towns

  • Introduce and Enforce New Building Codes. People Before Profit would introduce legislation to ensure that all new buildings and homes are up to the latest standards in energy efficiency and insulating (eg; Passive Home standards).
  • A State Construction Company. People Before Profit would form state energy and construction companies to work with local authorities to oversee the retro-fitting of older buildings and homes to reach the same standards and with a remit to dramatically cut the use of energy for home heating. (The present home improvement grants are a wholly inadequate response and will never oversee the retro-fitting of homes on the scale or to the standard needed).

Opposition to Fossil Fuel Corporations

  • People Power to Challenge the Energy Companies. Support the building of a European-wide movement to challenge the power and control of energy resources by multinational corporations in the fossil fuel industries.
  • Legislate to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground. We would ensure that new proven reserves of gas, oil and coal remain in the ground and that all available resources are utilised to switch to non-carbon and sustainable forms of energy production