28th March: Event on Youth Employment and the Digitalisation of the Energy Renovation Sector
28th March 2018: Event on Youth Employment and the Digitalisation of the Energy Renovation Sector Event jointly organised by the Youth Intergroup and Renovate Europe. Hosted by MEP Brando Benifei (Italy, S&D) Room A5G305, European Parliament, Brussels Digitalisation is sweeping through the energy renovation sector, from collaborative robots and virtual reality modelling (BIM) to indoor prefabrication, drones & 3D printing. - How can we address the widening gap between rising youth unemployment and an ageing construction sector through an increasingly attractive digitalised…
Op-ed: “Efficiency First” will deliver – let’s start with renovating our buildings (Euractiv)
Published by Euractiv on: 16 March 2018 | There is a simple truth about EU climate policy: If it does not put energy efficiency first, it will not meet its objectives cost-effectively. And if it does not try to do that, it may not meet them at all, writes Adrian Joyce.
Energy Renovation – the Sharpest Arrow in the EU’s post-2020 Budget
15 March 2018 The adoption yesterday in the European Parliament of the Olbrycht-Thomas Own-Initiative Report has set a positive tone for future negotiations on the EU’s post-2020 Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF), which has the potential to significantly boost investments in energy renovations across the EU. The EP’s call for climate-related funding to be raised to 30% in the next 7-year budgetary period acknowledges the rising expectations from EU citizens to deliver a people-centric budget in line with the Paris Agreement and the Energy Efficiency First principle. “The energy…
Renovate Europe responds to MFF Public Consultation
Renovate Europe provided its imput to the public consultations on the post-2020 MFF. Why is Energy Renovation one of the biggest success stories of the current EU budget? Energy Renovation is a people-centric policy which positively impacts citizens. Energy Renovation also has undeniable economic benefits for EU businesses and for public budgets Energy Renovation and the modernisation of the existing building stock creates quality jobs for local SMEs How can Energy Renovation make the next MFF "Europe's biggest jobs programme"? Earmarking for energy efficiency and especially for…
Renovate Europe brings together its National Partners to discuss MFF
Renovate Europe brought together 9 of its 15 National Partners to discuss the post-2020 Multi-Annual Financial Framework. A panel of 3 experts provided insight on the topic to set the scene: Key aspects of post-2020 MFF – What opportunities and what risks?Jonathan Gaventa, E3G The Climate Thematic Objective – Impact for Energy Efficiency and Future Outlook Markus Trilling, CAN Europe Challenges and Benefits in the Cities – How to improve funding channels for energy renovation in the next MFF Andy Deacon, Climate Alliance
EPBD Negotiations: NZEB 2050 gets a step closer!
20 December 2017 Adrian Joyce, Renovate Europe Campaign Director The time that remains to avoid catastrophic global warming is rapidly slipping away. It is not just me saying that, and not just Emmanuel Macron. It is also the message that United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) delivered last week, and it is one that EU Member States seem to have heard ahead of their negotiations at the 19 December trialogue on revisions to the EPBD. In the decades ahead, the world is set to construct a Paris-sized area…