This paper describes the progress that local authorities in England and Wales are making in adapting to the threat of climate change and taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The responses from surveys of local authorities in England

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Research was conducted in Nottinghamshire, England to investigate public attitudes regarding home energy efficiency issues. Quantitative data were collected in the form of a postal survey, achieving over three hundred responses. Additionally, predominantly qualitative data were collected in semi-structured interviews in 15 homes. The issues investigated included the grant-funded energy efficiency measures installed by the public, the organisations providing grants, the means by which the recipients were referred to the organisations, and the public's preferences regarding energy efficiency advice. Findings were made about the local authority's success in encouraging the take-up of energy efficiency grants, about the public's preferences for the means by which advice should be provided, about trust relating to energy efficiency grants provided by gas and electricity suppliers, and about people's knowledge of the most effective energy efficiency measures. Additional findings were drawn about specific energy efficiency issues, including old heating systems and compact fluorescent light bulbs. IntroductionDespite the fact that the public is provided with a variety of sources of advice on home energy efficiency, the energy efficiency of English dwellings is only slowly improving (ODPM 2005, BRE 2006, DEFRA 2008. Shorrock (1998) showed that subsidies improve the installation of energy efficiency measures, and there are now multiple sources for grants that the public in England can exploit (EST 2010b). This paper presents research on advice about, and grants for, household energy efficiency. Advice and grants are inextricably linked and are often addressed simultaneously by practitioners in the field (Wallace 2009). However, there has been only a small amount of empirical research performed in this area, with the grants system almost entirely ignored.Lack of information or advice is a barrier to domestic energy efficiency. Cragg Ross Dawson (2004) found that ignorance about which measures ought to be installed played a part in inhibiting the installation of energy efficiency measures. Research into the means by which information on energy efficiency measures should be provided to the public has indicated that a variety of channels are required. Brandon and Lewis (1999)

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