Again, to directly address your question, I think fuel poverty should be an integral part of any anti-poverty strategy in all countries. Even in Africa we know that one of the big problems African households in the poorest parts of Africa have is they don't have enough money for cooking fuels. So it's not just heating.
There is obviously some careful policy planning if the government is trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions overall in the domestic sector, while at the same time many fuel-poor people need to increase their fuel consumption and therefore increase their carbon dioxide output. So there really does need to be some mechanism to reduce the fuel consumption of people who are using a very great deal, but it needs to be done on the basis of need. You need to make sure that things like fuel taxes don't impact on the poorest and make them even poorer and make them even colder. Therefore fuel poverty is not part of your anti-poverty policy. That will be missed. And other policies to reduce carbon dioxide will have very bad consequences for the poor and for your anti-poverty strategy.
