Launching the EU Renovation Loan
On November 3rd our EU Level Supporting Partner Climate Strategy & Partners hold a webinar to launch its latest report concerning the European Renovation Loan (ERL). Combining existing financial elements and components and joining them together in a new instrument designed to deliver finance at the EU Renovation Wave scale, the ERL has the potential to fill the private financing gap and address over 50 million EU homeowners. The report aims at tackling three key elements: Identifying the right 50 million homeowners. Designing the EU Renovation Loan to fill the identified gap. Implementing the right enabling framework to ensure ERL’s success. WATCH WEBINARDOWNLOAD…
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…
Skills through the multi-annual financial framework: building renovation in the Mediterranean area
A trained workforce and skilled public administration will be essential to support the drive to a highly energy efficient building stock, in line with EU climate neutrality goals. This 90-minute online conversation, that we co-organised with Energy Cities (representing the Interreg MED Efficient Buildings Community) and EFBWW, informs EU, national and regional stakeholders on how to maximise current opportunities to increase the availability of a qualified workforce for energy renovations, particularly for public buildings. It looks at the importance of skills and training as a pre-requisite for rolling out successful renovation schemes on the ground. We explore how to make the…
How to unlock the Renovation Wave?
The Renovate Europe Campaign and Positive Money Europe co-organised the webinar “How to unlock the Renovation Wave” on the occasion of the launch of the Unlock campaign. The event took place online on Wednesday, May 11th from 11am to 12.15am CEST. The current recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings directive (EPBD) proposes comprehensive measures to accelerate energy efficient renovation of residential buildings. However, financing the Renovation Wave remains a complex challenge. The Commission expects a funding gap of around € 275 billion per year by 2030. Public funding for renovation purposes is often too slow to deploy, too bureaucratic, and not scalable enough due to…
One-Stop-Shops: Maximising their potential to accelerate energy renovation
21th March 2022 (11:30-12:50 CET) The Renovate Europe Campaign hosted the webinar “One-Stop-Shops: Maximising their potential to accelerate energy renovation” on Monday 21 March 2022 (11:30-12:50 CET) via GoToWebinar. In a context of rising energy prices and a spiralling climate crisis, reducing the energy demand of Europe’s leaky buildings is a priority. Technical assistance provided by One-Stop-Shops (OSS) has long been advocated as part of the solution to accelerating building energy renovation in the EU. Maximising their potential will be crucial if we are to boost the deep renovation of the EU building stock in order to increase our energy security and cut…
Mortgage Portfolio Standards, an innovative approach to decarbonise buildings
14th October 2021 (15:00-16:30 CEST) The Renovate Europe Campaign hosted the Climate & Strategy Partners webinar “Mortgage Portfolio Standards, an innovative approach to decarbonise buildings”, during which high-level speakers talked and discussed the released Climate Strategy & Partners report “Underwriting the Renovation Wave with Mortgage Portfolio Standards for Energy Efficiency” (read the report here). Speakers included: Adrian Joyce, Campaign Director, Renovate Europe Campaign Peter Sweatman, Founder and CEO, Climate Strategy & Partners Paula Rey García, Deputy Head of Unit, DG ENER Buildings and Products Sonja van Renssen, Editor-in-Chief, Energy…