On 5 April 2016 the JRC presented the interactive and collaborative online European Energy Efficiency Platform. This beta platform is conceived to fill the gap opened by scattered data and fragmented knowledge resulting from a rapidly growing energy efficiency market. It is expected to be both a one-stop shop for information retrieval and a meeting point for experts to exchange data and reduce redundant activities.
Policies and Targets
Based on the priority currently given by the European Union to the energy efficiency topic through its Energy Union Package, this feasibility study has focused on the role of location data in support of energy efficiency policies, taking into account the requirements of INSPIRE, EPBD and EED Directives, as well as the CoM initiative. The EU Member States are already due to implement such Directives according to different...
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Technology and Standards
Buildings
Renovation is an umbrella term which normally describes a variety of interventions in a building: from modernization, retrofit, restoration and rehabilitation to simple maintenance, repairs and routine upgrades. An energy renovation is often “behind the scenes” of many of these actions, with each action delivering different level of energy savings.
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Policies and Targets
Urban Areas
by: Lambert Van Nistelrooij, MEP on October 12, 2015 - EP Today
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Policies and Targets
Buildings
The energy saving potential of the building sector in the EU has enjoyed increasing attention in recent years. Modernising the building sector is also attached to a number of important benefits for many actors in society. It results in reduced energy bills, increased disposable income and improved indoor comfort levels for households. For firms, greater energy efficiency translates to increased productivity and...
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Buildings
The European building stock consumes approximately 40% of primary energy and it is responsible for 36% of the EU greenhouse emissions[1]. A significant reduction of building energy demand is a requisite to meet Europe’s GHG emissions reduction targets[2].
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Buildings
Brussels, BE — Thursday, November 9, 2017 - 09:00
The Heating & Cooling Strategy describes, inter-alia, the challenges to upscaling energy efficiency upgrades of private buildings and suggests that different building ownership forms require different approaches to drive energy efficient upgrades.
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Policies and Targets
Urban Areas
WE, THE MAYORS, COMMIT TO:
Go beyond the objectives set by the EU for 2020, reducing the CO2 emissions in our respective territories by at least 20%, through the implementation of a Sustainable Energy Action Plan for those areas of activity relevant to our mandates.
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Buildings
Brussels, BE — Thursday, November 9, 2017 - 09:00
The Heating & Cooling Strategy describes, inter-alia, the challenges to upscaling energy efficiency upgrades of private buildings and suggests that different building ownership forms require different approaches to drive energy efficient upgrades.
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Economics and Financing
Buildings
With the right set of policy tools, it is generally accepted that governments can play a crucial role in promoting energy efficiency and leveraging more investments in the building sector, especially in the existing stock. Buildings are responsible for 40% of total energy consumption of the EU and their modernisation is considered to be pivotal in our shift towards a low carbon economy.
Current...
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Nantes, FR — Monday, September 26, 2016 - 09:00 to Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 12:00
The COP21 was a success and a major step in the commitment by States to fight against climate change. It is a global challenge that calls for local action. Major cities, towns and all civil society carry solutions for concrete, ambitious and real action.
A global summit, Climate Chance aims to become a regular event for all non-state actors involved in the fight against climate change.
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Alger, DZ — Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 09:30 to Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 17:15
La formation Convention des Maires en Algérie s'inscrit dans le cadre d'une série de formations destinées aux formateurs de la région du Sud de la Méditerranée.
La formation vise à:
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A survey was launched in support of a joint study by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2)
Objective: To identify country-specific and regional barriers to investing in energy efficiency and to ascertain how these barriers can be overcome (with an emphasis on energy efficiency in industry)
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The presentation gives an overview of the Covenant of Mayors initiatives and its main elements (Baseline Emissions Inventories - BEI, Sustainable Energy Action Plans - SEAP, Monitoring Emissions Inventories- MEI).
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Monday, September 12, 2016 - 12:30 to Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 12:30
This workshop is jointly organised by the Directorate B – Growth and Innovation - Digital Economy Unit and the Directorate C – Energy, Transport and Climate - Energy Efficiency and Renewables Unit of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC).
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Policies and Targets
Buildings
The European building stock consumes approximately 40% of primary energy and it is responsible for 36% of the EU greenhouse emissions. A significant reduction of building energy demand is a requisite to meet Europe’s GHG emissions reduction targets.
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The European Union is giving more and more emphasis to its energy policy, whose strategy and actions are included in the Energy Union Package and the 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy.
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Monday, September 26, 2016 - 09:00 to Friday, September 30, 2016 - 17:00
The INSPIRE Conference 2016 will take place in Barcelona, 26-30 September 2016
It will be organised through a series of plenary sessions addressing common policy issues, and parallel sessions focusing in particular on applications and implementations of INSPIRE, interoperability challenges and solutions, research issues and new and evolving technologies and applications and poster presentations.
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The expert workshop "Spatial Data for Modeling Building Stock Energy Needs" took place on 24-26 November 2015 in Ispra, at the EC Joint Research Centre. It was jointly organised by the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) - Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit and the Institute for Energy and Transport (IET) - Renewable and Energy Efficiency Unit of the JRC.
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This is a call for Experts in the area of energy performance of buildings, sustainable energy planning at local level and/or geolocation data.
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Urban Areas
Sustainable energy planning:
Covenant of Mayors
Nearly Zero Energy Districts
Smart Cities, ICT in Cities
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