Factsheet – How to decarbonise heating and cooling by 2030
How to decarbonise heating and cooling by 2030: The path to renewable, healthy, and efficient buildings in the EU. Discover the many heating and cooling solutions that are already available - and the EU policy toolbox that can help get them into every building.
Heating and cooling buildings requires a lot of energy all year round. In the EU, nearly half of all energy consumed goes towards it. That’s because around 80% of the energy used by each household is for heating and cooling — and most of that still comes from fossil fuels, polluting as much as all the cars in the EU combined.
Heating appliances that use fossil fuels aren’t being replaced quickly enough with cleaner, cheaper, renewable alternatives. The EU can help by lifting barriers that hold back the rapid deployment of decarbonised renewable heating solutions — including stopping new installations of fossil fuel boilers. This will help to address long-term costs for consumers, energy poverty, indoor air pollution, and energy insecurity.
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