The government has outlined its plans to reduce emissions from heating homes and businesses.

Its Heat Strategy will explore how properties across the country's different sectors are warmed up, with supporting evidence and real-life case studies used to pose questions on future policy options.

The proposal has been set out in three different categories, focusing on this decade, the 2020s and 2030s, and the long term.

Energy and climate change secretary Edward Davey said: "Cutting emissions from the way we generate heat is essential if we are to meet our climate change and renewables targets."

Mr Davey explained that numerous towns throughout Britain are already opting to use low carbon forms of heating, such as biomass and heat pumps.

Energy efficiency in the UK was recently put under the spotlight by the Committee on Climate Change's chairman Lord Adair Turner, who called on the government to force property owners to change their boilers to more sustainable models next year.