The incoming Commissioner for Energy must be tasked with delivering the clean heat transition: phasing out fossil fuels in heating and cooling is the gateway towards energy security, affordability, European industrial competitiveness, and essential cli…
On Wednesday 16 May, 15 EU Member States published a joint working document calling on the Commission to prioritise the decarbonisation of heating and cooling in order to increase the EU’s energy independence and meet its climate targets.
Decarbonising the heating and cooling sector is central to achieving the energy transition. This is recognised in the European Green Deal and the ‘Fit for 55’ package, as without increasing the share of renewables in this sector, our energy and climate…
Providing 20% of the EU heat demand with district heating by 2030 would save 24 billion cubic meters of gas, representing 32% of Europe’s Russian gas imports in 2022. Decisive EU action is needed to leverage this potential.
Thoughtless bans of HFCs and ultralow-GWP HFOs and their blends fail to consider the energy efficiency and safe performance of equipment and products that are part of Europeans’ everyday lives.
The EU and cities are preparing the ground to decarbonise Europe’s buildings but most Member States are missing in action
