Member States and other stakeholders meet today to debate ecodesign rules for ‘stand-alone’ fossil fuel boilers. Raising energy efficiency requirements for heating appliances could effectively phase out fossil fuel operated boilers, since they are significantly less efficient than other solutions, like electric heat pumps. If the EU wants to respect its legal commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and mitigate the current energy crisis, the moment to act is now.
On 27 April, the European Commission has convened an extraordinary Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Consultation Forum. National experts from EU Member States and other stakeholders, including ECOS, will attend to discuss revised ecodesign rules for space and water heaters. We want sales of ‘stand-alone’ fossil fuel boilers to be phased out. Now is the time to take such a step! Read through our background briefing to discover why and how.
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Meant to prevent greenwashing by giving consumers reliable environmental information on products, the proposal falls short of its original ambition and fails to offer a robust, harmonised methodology for calculating environmental impacts.
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Environmental experts publish science-based Taxonomy and appeal to the investor community to use these new criteria instead.
EU institutions have agreed on a groundbreaking Battery Regulation for more sustainable batteries
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Today, the European Commission has published the second part of its Circular Economy Action Plan. The package includes much needed initiatives on packaging, the so-called bio-plastics, and carbon removals.
Last Thursday and Friday, the European Commission and Member State representatives agreed on new ecodesign requirements for phones and tablets. Right to Repair campaigners celebrate the move but regret a missed opportunity to introduce rules granting people a true right to repair.
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