Webinar: Why and How is Technical Assistance the Wealth-enabler for buildings?
Renovate Europe is delighted to announce the webinar “Why and How is Technical Assistance the Wealth-enabler for buildings?”, which is taking place on Tuesday 28 September 2021 (10:30-11:50 CET) via GoToWebinar. Historic amounts of funding will be made available through the EU budget (RRF and MFF), and the main buildings-related legislation (EED and EPBD) will be strengthened to deliver on the Renovation Wave goals. Unfortunately, the crucial role of Technical Assistance in delivering renovation schemes is still vastly underestimated. Technical assistance or capacity building…
Guide: Applying for Technical Support to Implement the Renovation Wave
What is DG REFORM’s Structural Reform Support? The Directorate-General for Structural Reform and Support (REFORM) is a new DG within the European Commission with the objective of helping EU countries to design and carry out structural reforms, e.g. when designing and implementing the National Recovery and Resilience Plans. The 2021-2027 long-term EU budget allocated nearly €1 billion to provide this type of tailor-made support, which could also significantly improve the absorption rates of EU funding across the Member States. How does DG REFORM’s support differ from other…
Op-ed: Public Buildings: The starter cog for the Renovation Wave (ECEEE)
Published by ECEEE on: 20 July 2021 | The review of the EED is an essential cog as the EU gears itself up to at least double the overall renovation rate from its paltry ~1% by the end of the decade, as part of the “Renovation Wave Strategy”. Ensuring public buildings are front and centre in our renovation efforts is an indispensable step.
EPBD revision: How to boost renovation rates and depth in the EU
The revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) is a necessary pre-condition to meet the Renovation Wave objectives and to achieve a highly energy efficient and decarbonised building stock by 2050. The stubbornly low renovation rates and depth across the EU to date calls for the need to strengthen the European regulatory and non-regulatory measures for energy renovations in the EPBD. Download full REC recommendations to strengthen the provisions of the EPBD
Renovate Europe Calls for MEPS in its EPBD Roadmap Response
Renovate Europe suggests that both the regulatory measures proposed in Option 3 and the non-regulatory measures proposed in Option 2 must be synchronised in the most effective way in the context of the upcoming revision of the EPBD to boost the rate and depth of renovation across the EU. Download full REC Response to EPBD Roadmap
Op-ed: Don’t let our most valuable assets crumble away (ECEEE)
Published by ECEEE on: 16 March 2021 | The buildings that support our way of life are worth trillions of euros yet fears about how to fund energy renovations are stalling the sector’s green progress. There is plenty of cash out there looking for a home, you just need to know where to look, writes Adrian JOYCE, Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign.