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…
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…
Spend wisely: How to use Cohesion Funding for Energy Renovation
Recommendations for the MFF 2021-2027 Operational ProgrammesThe 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…
Letter to EU Energy Ministers on Article 6 of the EED
Dear Minister, At Monday’s Energy Council, your input will be decisive in reaching a General Approach on the Energy Efficiency Directive. In my capacity as Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign, I urge you to consider the importance of a robust Article 6 on public buildings. Citizens look to their governments for leadership and action. Renovation is a concrete measure that will deliver long-lasting, sustainable solutions to the energy, social and climate emergency we face. Reducing the energy demand, and therefore the energy bills, of our public buildings is a crucial step in…