advancing energy efficiency in European buildings
This guide is a valuable resource for all the actors working to enhance energy efficiency in the building sector.
Achieving climate neutrality and delivering benefits to European businesses and citizens requires action on underperforming buildings across the EU. Our implementation guide on the EPBD recast provides practical insights on how to address this challenge.
Read Efficient Buildings Europe’s Implementation Guide: Implementation Guide
Read the joint cross-sector recommendations on the first European Affordable Housing Plan.
Following Ursula von der Leyen’s political guidelines 2024-2029, read Efficient Buildings Europe Press Release on affordable housing.
Efficient Buildings Europe, together with other 17 organisations, signed a joint letter addressed to the European Commission and the 27 governments to highlight the importance of addressing skills and labour shortages in key sectors for the European green transition.
Buildings account for one third of the EU’s energy-related greenhouse gas emissions and 42% of the EU’s final energy consumption.
The EPBD recognises the importance of energy efficiency in buildings for delivering lower energy bills, bettering living conditions, improving energy security and increasing competitiveness.
What happens next? Member states will vote on the EPBD in April. If they also approve it, we will move on to implementation.
Less than a week after the Buildings and Climate Global Forum and the Declaration de Chaillot, signed by 70 countries, the EPBD brings clarity on the way forward at EU level.
After years of important advocacy and technical work, we have reached a crucial milestone with the EPBD.