Renovate Europe Day 2022 - Highlights
The REDay2022 High-level Conference took place in the European Parliament co-hosted by the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) Rapporteur Ciarán Cuffe (Greens/EFA, Ireland) and was also streamed online on the 27th of October.
The event was divided in two sessions. The first focused on the ongoing EPBD recast and the importance that a tool such as Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) play (read the joint letter co-signed by Renovate Europe encouraging ambitious MEPS here). The second took a look on how we can finance the Renovation Wave, both through public funds-based mechanisms, as well as private capital and bank schemes.
Blogpost: Europe is in energy crisis, let’s look at the solutions (C4E Forum)
“We are living a historical moment, that might mean a new era for many European countries. Looking at the solutions and ways to implement them might be a new restart for green economy transition in many countries in Europe.” writes Katarína Nikodemová.
Campaign Director Adrian Joyce on Bloomberg
“A sense of urgency has to be injected into this process […] If we don’t achieve deep renovation of 2.5% by 2030 and maintain it for two decades, we’ll fail in this challenge,” says Adrian Joyce, Campaign director of the Renovate Europe Campaign. Read the full article here.
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.
REC Newsletter - Autumn 2022
Welcome to Renovate Europe’s newsletter!
Here are the highlights from the last very busy months.
These include: the organisation of Renovate Europe Day 2022 that took place at the European Parliament (and online) on the 27th of October, the publication of the updated infographic on EU funding for energy renovation, and the launch of our two latest briefings regarding investment in skills and advisory services.
Other initiatives include hosting the webinar “Renovating Europe’s buildings: opportunities for workforce upskilling in cohesion funding” during this year’s #EURegionsWeek and co-signing a joint letter asking for ambitious Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) recast.
We are also very pleased to announce the launch of the European Renovation Loan Report by our partner Climate Strategy & Partners.
As for the C4E Forum, the save the date for the 23-26 May 2023 has already been issued, and our Campaign Director Adrian Joyce has published a blogpost looking into the importance of the Central and Eastern Region in the Renovation Wave and in accomplishing both the climate and energy security goals in the EU agenda.
Read the full Newsletter here.
Campaign Director Adrian Joyce on Bloomberg
"It’s difficult to motivate billions of building owners to take action. [...] And, as for politicians, they are reluctant to impose obligations on individual homeowners," says Adrian Joyce, Campaign Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign in an article on Bloomberg. Read the full article here.
Photo credit: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg