Gordon Brown announces new Green Homes Service

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that a “green hotline” will be introduced to provide members of the public with advice on how to cut their impact on the environment.  It will be called the Green Homes Service and will consist of a telephone line, a website and advice centres which aim to provide a single point of contact for people who want a “home energy audit”.

In his speach Mr Brown said that in 50 of Britain’s poorest areas homes would be offered energy efficiency deals, and for those selling or buying energy wasting homes it would offer discounted help.

Speaking about the task of dealing with the issue of climate change, Mr Brown said:

“I believe it will require no less than a fourth technological revolution. In the past the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, the microprocessor transformed not just technology but the way our society has been organised and the way people live. Now we’re about to embark on a comparable technological transformation to low carbon energy and energy efficiency and this represents an immense challenge to Britain, but it is also an opportunity.”

“While the richest countries have caused climate change it is the poorest who are already suffering its effects,” Mr Brown said.