REGILIENCE – ambitiously supporting cities and regions on building climate pathways
As COP26 ends, leaving many wondering how the ongoing climate crisis can be tackled in a quicker and more efficient global way, the need to find impactful solutions despite the lack of significant change envisioned is more pressing than ever. Are there ways to tackle the changing climate, not only by cutting down emissions but with adapted solutions? This is where REGILIENCE comes in with consequential solutions rooted in adaptive tools for climate resilient regions.
Innovative financing schemes for local and regional sustainability plans: PROSPECT+ call for mentors and mentees
PROSPECT+ follows the footsteps of the H2020-funded project PROSPECT and continues to help regional and local authorities in Europe to finance and implement their sustainable energy action plans with innovative financing schemes. Local and regional authorities from 44 eligible countries can now apply to participate in the 1st Capacity-building programme, either as a mentor from 29 November to 17 December, or a mentee from 10 to 28 January. The project will form communities of practice to exchange knowledge on five areas where cities have a lot of potential to make major cuts in emissions, while making savings in the local budget: public and private buildings, public lighting, transport and cross sectoral. The application process is simple, participation is free.
ENSMOV newsletter - implementation of policies under Article 7 EED
If you missed out on the latest ENSMOV developments, now is the time to catch up and keep yourself updated on Article 7 of the EED: read about the report “a new toolkit on Monitoring, Reporting & Verification”, watch an interview from Stefan Bouzarovski on energy poverty, and more!
The European project MICAT aims to develop a user-friendly online tool calculating diverse benefits of energy efficiency measures
Have you ever thought that energy efficiency measures can bring about a high number of benefits aside for monetary savings? Did you know that emissions reduction, improved health, better air quality, and new employment opportunities can be a direct result of energy efficiency measures? However, how can one assess and monitor these impacts on local, national, and European level? And how can the collected data be used on multiple benefits of energy efficiency to bring different policy angles into play and develop more comprehensive and integrated sustainability strategies? The H2020 project MICAT aims to develop a comprehensive approach to estimate Multiple Impacts of Energy Efficiency (MI-EE) by co-creating a free, easy-to-use, scientifically sound online tool (MICATool). The tool will enable policymakers and practitioners to conduct simplified analyses for different data and policy scenarios, to compare and assess the relevance of the multiple impacts, and strengthen reporting and monitoring at the local, national, and European level. The initial predevelopment phase is already taking place as 3 European municipalities have been selected for pilotage. Vitoria Gasteiz (Basque Country), Calvià (Spain) and Tartu (Estonia) were selected as “MICATool Pilot Cities” to help co-develop and test a new online tool that estimates the multiple benefits of energy efficiency.
Co-creation workshops – evaluating and designing nudges and defining energy consumer profiles
Co-creation workshops allowed evaluating the respective nudges that will be implemented in the energy monitoring applications of each H2020-funded project NUDGE pilot, in terms of user acceptance, comprehensibility and ease-of-use.
BECoop - business modelling for energy communities
2 months ago, H2020 BECoop presented at the Sustainable places event, on energy communities business models. Now that the recording, paper and key findings are available, we've gathered all in a short article! And while waiting for the project newsletter coming soon, you can catch up on the latest pilot developments.
Support Triple-A by filling the project questionnaire for the categorization of energy efficiency risk mitigation strategies, financing instruments and financial schemes.
This questionnaire aims at categorising identified financing instruments, financial models/schemes, and risk mitigation strategies for different EU Member States based on their applicability and importance. For more information on the identified financing instruments, financial models/schemes, and risk mitigation strategies, please visit the Triple-A Web-Based Database.
Want to keep up on recent information tackling energy poverty? Here is a list of articles and publications from H2020 ENPOR:
• Read about the city of Ghent’s concrete measures for tackling energy poverty and supporting vulnerable households through counselling on renovations and subsidies. A unique local approach: Empowering vulnerable families in their energy-efficiency refurbishment - ENPOR's contribution to COP26 • ENPOR
• An article about France’s current rise in energy prices and how to protect vulnerable households. Learn more about the measures implemented to tackle energy poverty during a high peak in energy prices as well as potential solutions including market regulation, the importance of a local approach and how to guide vulnerable households during the renovation periods: Blog - How to tackle energy poverty whilst dealing with a historical rise in energy prices in France • ENPOR
• Discover good practices from 10 European countries on alleviating energy poverty, in 10 country factsheets and a European one identifying policies and measures that actively tackled energy poverty across Europe following 4 themes: Governance, Indicators, Main national measures and good practices: Tackling energy poverty : learning from experience in 10 European countries | IEECP
• For more good practices, you can check out ENPOR’s Energy Poverty Dashboard which was recently launched to collect national policies on mitigating energy poverty in the private rented sector : Energy Poverty Dashboard