Tag: building energy performance

• Joint letter – Financing strategy to bridge the energy renovation gap

  ECOS has co-signed a letter with 12 other organisations calling on Dan Jørgensen, EU Commissioner for Housing and Energy, to turn policy into action with a financing strategy that will bridge the energy renovation gap.

• Negotiations dilute EU building law: Member States now hold the reins

  EU legislators suggested an end of fossil heating subsidies by 2025, targets to renovate EU’s building stock, and a reduction of buildings’ carbon footprint. However, the law leaves much leeway when it comes to national implementation, jeopardising its own social and environmental goals.

• Checklist for a successful EPBD Recast

  ECOS and four other organisations created a checklist for Members of European Parliament to ensure a successful recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).

• World Standards Day 2022: Five areas where standards make a real difference

  To mark World Standards Day 2022, we have gathered examples of how standards are essential to making change happen in areas of major importance to our transition to an environmentally sustainable world.

• Ambitious Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS): A no regret option

  ECOS and 15 other leading industry players, NGOs, think tanks and investors are calling Members of the European Parliament to adopt ambitious Minimum Energy Performance Standards in the EPBD recast.