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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As part of the European Commission’s Covenant of Mayors Initiative, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has carried out an in-depth analysis of selected sustainable energy action plans (SEAPs).
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Energy services and the use of energy service companies (ESCOs) can play a critical role in promoting energy efficiency at the market level. Operational since the early 1990s, ESCOs can handle projects, manage or mobilize financial resources, undertake installation and maintenance work as well as assume the performance risk of their projects.
Created the 11 Nov 201511 Nov 2015Total Views 134134
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The purpose of this project is to develop an econometric model aimed at estimating the impact of energy efficiency policies on energy consumption in the EU Member States in the period 1990-2013. The aim of the models is to answer three core research questions: 1. Are EU and national energy efficiency policies effective in reducing aggregate energy consumption?
Created the 24 Oct 201524 Oct 2015Total Views 3232
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In line with the Energy Union strategy, the EU 2030 climate and energy policy framework sees energy saving as Europe’s first fuel in 2030. Making energy efficiency the mechanism for delivering moderation of demand will enable the EU to meet its objectives in terms of security of supply, climate change, jobs, growth and competitiveness.
Created the 17 Oct 201517 Oct 2015Total Views 1919
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Urban Areas
Energy efficiency is a strategic component of urban sustainability. The aim of this workshop is to address benchmarking techniques in energy efficiency and sustainability as a management tool in the context of urban and local community actions towards sustainability. The workshop also identifies and discusses methodologies and tools to measure urban sustainable energy and energy efficiency in cities.
Created the 17 Oct 201517 Oct 2015Total Views 6565
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6 years of Covenant of Mayors in figures: Assessment report shows cities' ambition
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre just published a 6-year assessment report on the Covenant of Mayors.
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Urban Areas
This Guidebook is tailored to the specific needs of the Eastern Partnership and central Asian countries, which are still recovering from economic reform.
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Policies and Targets
Urban Areas
This Guidebook is tailored to the specific needs of the Eastern Partnership and central Asian countries, which are still recovering from economic reform.
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This Guidebook is a revision of the Guidebook 'How to develop a Sustainable Energy Action Plan (2010)', focusing on the 11 Newly Independent States or the Eastern Partnership of the European Union.
Created the 05 Oct 201505 Oct 2015Total Views 127127
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Urban Areas
This document aims to present examples of measures that could be used for Sustainable Urban Demonstration projects (SUDeP) in the Eastern Partnership cities (Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan). The examples of measures with high degree of replicability are selected from the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAPs) developed within the context of the Covenant of Mayors initiative.
Created the 05 Oct 201505 Oct 2015Total Views 212212
Policies and Targets
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This document is aimed to present examples of the measures to local authorities that could be used for Sustainable Urban Demonstration projects (SUDeP)1 in the Eastern Partnership cities (Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan).
Created the 05 Oct 201505 Oct 2015Total Views 165165
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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.
Created the 02 Oct 201502 Oct 2015Total Views 144144
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The European Union Location Framework (EULF) project promotes effective location-enabled e-government across Europe, as part of the Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations (ISA) programme.
Created the 01 Oct 201501 Oct 2015Total Views 228228
Global climate change poses significant risks to the California economy. Recognizing and responding to these threats, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Executive Order #S-3-05 (Schwarzenegger 2005) which called for a 30 percent reduction below business-as-usual of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
Created the 13 Feb 201513 Feb 2015Total Views 3030
Behaviours and Social
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‘Water is a brutal delineator of social power which has at various times worked to either foster greater urban cohesion or generate new forms of political conflict’. In the paper which follows, Matthew Gandy explores this statement by looking at the expansion of urban water systems since the chaos of the nineteenth-century industrial city.
Created the 13 Feb 201513 Feb 2015Total Views 12531253
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Replicable Measures from SEAPs of Ukraine for Sustainable Urban Demonstration Projects.
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The Part III of the guidebook has presented a collection of measures to improve energy efficiency and reduce the dependency on fossil fuels by using renewable energies. All measures collected in this chapter have been tested and successfully implemented by several cities in Europe.
Created the 24 Oct 201424 Oct 2014Total Views 1818
Policies and Targets
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This Guidebook is tailored to the specific needs of the Eastern Partnership and central Asian countries, which are still recovering from economic reform.
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The purpose of the present guidebook is to help the Covenant of Mayors signatories in Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine) and five Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) to reach the commitments they have taken by signing the Covenant, and in particular to prepare within the year following their official...
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This guidebook is adapted to the South Mediterranean context from the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) guidebook "How to develop a Sustainable Energy Action Plan", developed in 2010 to support the implementation of the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) initiative in European cities.
Created the 14 Oct 201414 Oct 2014Total Views 121121
