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.
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Urban Areas
24 mayors and representatives of local authorities from five countries in the south Mediterranean region just signed the Covenant of Mayors committing to help reduce carbon emissions.
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Economics and Financing
Gdynia is the most energy-efficient city in Poland, improving its citizens’ quality of life on small municipal spending. How?
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Urban Areas
Today is the third day of the European Week in the Spanish city of Zaragoza, marking the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration. In this framework, which includes a wide variety of activities on the theme of European integration, the city just delivered its “Estrella de Europa” (European Star) award to the Covenant of Mayors initiative in recognition of the movement’s contribution to the promotion of European values.
Last Updated on 12 Jun 201812 Jun 2018Total Views 55
Economics and Financing
Urban Areas
The MESHARTILITY project (Measure and share data with utilities for the Covenant of Mayors) is an IEE-funded project that addresses data challenges faced by local governments when compiling their GHG inventories and Sustainable Energy Action Plans.
Last Updated on 12 Jun 201812 Jun 2018Total Views 1919
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EU Commissioner for Transport Violetta Bulc, met with politicians of the EUROCITIES Mobility Forum on 20 April 2015 to discuss the links between sustainable urban mobility and broader EU objectives for reduced C02 emissions.
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Technology and Standards
Achieving significant reductions in energy demand, green house gas emissions and incorporating renewable technologies at district and city level is a challenge. A new community of cities is implementing and testing solutions as part of the CITyFiED project.
Last Updated on 12 Jun 201812 Jun 2018Total Views 6868
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The French town of Seclin has just signed the Covenant of Mayors, by the way endorsing the CO2-reduction objective of Lille's urban community: 30% by 2020.
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Covenant Signatories in Eastern European and Central Asian countries share a common history and former administrative structure, which still influences the operational framework of these local authorities today.
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Economics and Financing
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On 24-25 March 2015, a ManagEnergy workshop on innovative financing and multi-level governance was organised in Bratislava (Slovakia). Front-running Slovak and Czech cities and regions engaged in the energy transition shared information on their sustainable energy investments, local financing schemes and partnerships with financing institutions, national authorities and the private sector.
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The results of the SEAP monitoring of 23 Italian municipalities were presented on 30 March in Rome. Covenant Coordinator Metropolitan City of Rome Capital (formerly Province of Rome) and Covenant Supporter Climate Alliance Italy provided support to the 23 signatories of the area in preparing their monitoring reports.
Last Updated on 09 Jun 201809 Jun 2018Total Views 55
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Buildings
According to Article 22 of Directive 2009/28/EC Member States had to submit by the end of 31st December 2013 to the European Commission the second Progress Reports on renewable energy development in European Union during period 2011 - 2012. The preliminary data on overall RES share in Gross Final Energy Consumption in those Member States who's second Progress Reports on renewable energy development can be found at...
Last Updated on 07 Jun 201807 Jun 2018Total Views 3535
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Energy Generation and Distribution
Energy Efficiency and Renewables Unit of the Directorate for Energy, Transport and Climate, Joint Research Centre, European Commission has launched the "NREAPs and progress reports Data Portal" providing access to more than 40 000 raw data from the EU Member States. The Data Portal gives access to 60 indicators in each EU Member States covering 3 sectors: Electricity, Heating/Cooling and Transport.
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Energy Generation and Distribution
21 EU Member States have submitted up to now according to Article 22 of Directive 2009/28/EC their third progress reports on renewable energy development in European Union during period 2013-2014. Based on this preliminary results 5 Member States have exceeded in year 2014 their 2020 target on the overall renewable energy share.
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The Trends in Energy Consumption and Energy Efficiency 2000 - 2012 report has been published in our publication sections.
Visit here to download the Report.
Last Updated on 27 Apr 201727 Apr 2017Total Views 1717
Urban Areas
Covenant signatories who have already submitted a SEAP as of mid-May 2014, have estimated for 2020 an overall reduction of 28% of the overall GHG emissions.
Last Updated on 27 Apr 201727 Apr 2017Total Views 2121
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eceee press release – Despite considerable progress in the implementation of EU energy efficiency policies since 2011, more is needed if the EU is to reach its 2020 energy efficiency targets. This is the conclusion of an exhaustive set of reports on EU and national policy implementation released today from the Energy Efficiency Watch 3 project.
Last Updated on 27 Feb 201727 Feb 2017Total Views 7272
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)
Last Updated on 26 Jan 201726 Jan 2017Total Views 3636
Source: http://www.iea.org/eemr16/
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Buildings
Measure for improving the energy performance of buildings shouldn't sacrifice Indoor Environment Quality (encompassing health, comfort, well-being and productivity).
After all, buildings are built for people to perform private and professional activities in.
Last Updated on 23 Sep 201623 Sep 2016Total Views 77
Technology and Standards
Thirty-five businesses across 20 countries have been selected for global recognition as part of the inaugural Energy Management Leadership Awards program sponsored by the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a high-level international forum that promotes policies and programs to advance clean energy.
Last Updated on 20 Jul 201620 Jul 2016Total Views 1313
