Efficient Buildings EU Elections Pledge: Getting more from less
Efficient Buildings Europe shares its European elections pledge ahead of the next mandate. Our members employ over 280,000 workers in more than 1,100 factories and office locations in the EU.
Our member companies will contribute to European leadership in energy efficiency solutions and improve Europe’s competitiveness on the global stage.
Our industry’s five commitments are designed to inspire you for the coming mandate period.
1. Our industry will contribute to the reindustrialisation of the EU
Help us help the EU: Support energy efficiency cleantech
- Develop a dedicated industrial policy for efficient buildings
- Implement Green Deal files to ensure market visibility
2. Our industry will make the EU more productive, competitive and resilient
Help us help the EU: Invest in energy renovations
- Increase the level and regularity of funding for energy renovations
- Improve EU funding absorption rate
- Unlock private finance
- Create socially fair financing programs
3. Our industry will employ and (re)train the next generation of skilled workers
Help us help the EU: Develop an integrated Energy Efficiency Academy
- Launch an Energy Efficiency Academy: Skilled workers are sorely needed to achieve our adopted 2030 objectives – and beyond. An academy would help with upskilling and re-skilling, addressing the performance of buildings in a holistic way: from the manufacturing of energy efficiency products and technologies to their deployment through energy renovations. It is essential for advisors, installers etc. to consider demand reduction and decarbonisation as going hand in hand.
4. Our industry will make homes and workplaces future-proof
Help us help the EU: Leverage innovation and data
- Encourage the use of digital technologies across the entire life-cycle of buildings – from early project planning to management, maintenance and energy renovations
- Implement indoor environmental quality requirements for buildings
- Integrate the deployment of energy efficiency solutions in climate adaptation strategies
- Roll out the Smart Readiness Indicator for large non-residential buildings
5. Our industry will decarbonise the EU
Help us help the EU: Decarbonise the buildings sector
- Increase the energy renovation rate to 3% and incentivise works bringing buildings to the highest performance standard.
- Develop a Whole Life Carbon approach for the building sector at EU level.
- Remove barriers to demand side flexibility.
