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Most homeowners are not interested in helping the planet by going green - just saving money.

That is the headline figure of a survey from County Homesearch conducted among house buyers to see if an energy-efficient property is an inducement to buy.

Some 70,000 vouchers worth a total of £28million are still available under the Government's Boiler Scrappage scheme.

The scheme was launched in January to upgrade up to 125,000 household heating systems in England to cut carbon, save money on fuel bills and sustain work for the heating industry.

The UK's biggest ever green home building programme will see four areas sharing £60million to build more than 600 new homes to the toughest ever environmental standards.

These new "eco-show homes" will be built in and around the four pioneering eco-town locations, introducing nearly 2000 people to green living and saving them hundreds of pounds on bills. Nearly a third of these homes will be affordable.

Moves are afoot to turn an area of South London into the UK's first sustainable suburb.

Schroder Property Investment Management, on behalf of Hackbridge Property Unit Trust, has submitted one of the country's largest planning applications for a £150million regeneration scheme for Hackbridge.

A national scheme to upgrade household heating systems to cut carbon, save money on fuel bills and sustain work for the heating industry is being launched today.

Up to 125,000 households in England with working "G-rated" boilers can now apply through the Energy Saving Trust for a voucher which will entitle them to £400 off the price of a new, modern "A-rated" boiler or a renewable heating system like a biomass boiler or a heat pump.

David Cameron’s pledge that a Conservative government would kick start £20billion of investment to makes homes greener and more energy efficient in a green partnership with Marks & Spencer and Tesco is a welcome boost to help transform Britain’s existing housing stock as well as creating much-needed work in the building sector.

That is the verdict of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

Climate change has been pushed to the top of the agenda with this week's Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, prompting the Government to announce a new pilot scheme to make our homes more energy efficient, but it will take a direct financial incentive to make it a top priority for UK households, says SmartNewHomes.com.

The Government has revealed details of a new £4million pilot scheme to make the 22 million existing homes in the UK more eco friendly.

Smart meters will be rolled out through energy suppliers to every home by the end of 2020 under final plans published by Energy and Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt.

A paper setting out the case for developing smart grids in the UK is also being published.

Hospitals, colleges and councils will be helped to cut energy use and save millions off their fuel bills under a major expansion of a climate change programme announced by Mayor of London Boris Johnson.

Just days before the start of the Copenhagen climate change summit, the Mayor visited a London fire station in Ilford, one of 42 buildings in the GLA family to have benefited from a green makeover started earlier this year.

The future of a climate resilient Britain depends on the engineering sector's response to the challenge.

That was the message from Environment Secretary Hilary Benn speaking at the joint Defra and Engineering the Future Conference.