Briefings - Speeding Up the Delivery for Renovation
The Renovate Europe Campaign alongside E3G and the support of our national partners publishes two briefings on “Speeding Up the Delivery for Renovation”. One on “Investing in Skills” and a second on “Investing and Advisory Services and One-Stop-Shops”.
Renovating Europe's buildings: opportunities for workforce upskilling in cohesion funding (#EURegionsWeek 2022)
Reducing energy demand is the sustainable answer to protect citizens against rising energy prices. To deliver on massive energy renovation programmes required to secure such energy-saving gains we need a much greater focus on workforce upskilling. This session, co-organised by Renovate Europe, E3G and the EFBWW, will focus on the needs of today’s workforce in terms of building renovations and will highlight funding opportunities in the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2021-2027 to help regions and cities step up to the challenge.
Moderator: Adrian Joyce, Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign
Speakers:
- Luis Galiano Bastarrica, Policy Assistant for Climate and Energy Policies at DG REGIO G.1 “Smart and Sustainable Growth”
- Rolf Gehring, Political Secretary of the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW)
- Vilislava Ivanova, Senior Researcher at E3G
Renovate Europe co-signs a joint letter on MEPS
Renovate Europe, alongside 26 other leading industry players, NGOs, think tanks and investors, co-signs a joint letter calling Members of the European Parliament to adopt ambitious Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) in the EPBD recast.
Slovakia to host the C4E Forum 2023
The Renovate Europe Campaign (REC), with the support of our national partner Buildings for the Future, is delighted to announce that we will organise the next C4E Forum in Slovakia from the 23rd to the 26th of May 2023.
REC Newsletter - Summer 2022
Welcome to Renovate Europe’s newsletter!
Here are some highlights from the past few months leading up to the summer break.
These include: Recommendations on how to effectively use Cohesion Funding towards energy renovation, Ongoing work monitoring the National Recovery and Resilience Plans, as well as Outreach to EU Energy Ministers about the importance of a robust article 6 on public buildings in the EED.
Renovate Europe recent initiatives also included a webinar on Unlocking the role of the Banking Sector in the Renovation Wave with PositiveMoney, an event on Skills in the MFF with Energy Cities and EFBWW, and our support for the Energy Cities campaign “More local staff to achieve climate transition”.
We are also very pleased to announce the launch of Renovate Bulgaria which becomes our new Bulgarian National Partner.
Thank you to all our Partners for their assistance in our activities!
Read the full Newsletter here.
Spend wisely: How to use Cohesion Funding for Energy Renovation
The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Cohesion Funds (CF) and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) can make a big difference for buildings renovation. But the Operational Programmes must be designed and implemented in a way that creates and sustains a renovation market for the longer term, beyond the “cliff-edge” end of the programming period.
We strongly urge Member States to consider the Key Recommendations on how to channel MFF funding effectively towards energy renovation in the Operational Programmes, namely by:
- Ensuring coherence with EU long-term climate objectives
- Avoid programmes funding single measures
- Scale the aid according to quality and ambition of the renovation project
- Attracting and leveraging private financing
- Limit the use of grants
- Favour lower support intensity
- Modulate the level of the aid rate to increase the leverage of private funding
- Encourage blended finance, combining Financial Instruments with grants
- Establish continuous calls
- Complementing and/or boosting national regulatory and funding initiatives already underway
- Maximise coherence with the national ambitions on buildings
- Facilitate MFF coordination with national funding schemes
- Ensure better coherence/integration of programs for energy renovation with those on renewable energy in buildings
- Streamline the administrative process at national level
- Maximising Programme Implementation
- Ensure sufficient allocation for Technical Assistance
- Ensure MFF-supported training programmes
- Complement the funding with an information campaign
- Better tracking and data collection
- Encourage digitalization
The buildings sector is a sector of enormous economic potential, creating local jobs and reducing citizens energy bills – all the while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slashing Europe’s dependence on foreign imports.
Read our recommendations more in detail here.
