Giant building blocks remind negotiators to Build Better Lives
Activists built a three metre high house out of coloured building blocks in front of the European Council and Commission buildings to call for an ambitious and socially just EPBD before the end of the year. The action is part of the Build Better Lives Campaign, which brings together 80 social, health and environmental groups, trade unions and youth movements across Europe.
OPINION: Transforming our buildings today will make better lives tomorrow
Despite millions of people living in unfit housing, for decades, there has been close to no effort towards developing and implementing inclusive and ambitious EU building policies that could support the energy renovation of Spain’s inefficient buildings. In addressing these issues, the revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) is a crucial starting point.
OPINION: Heat or eat? How efficient buildings today can save lives tomorrow
An opinion peice written by Eva Brardinelli, buildings policy expert at CAN Europe, and Mónica Vidal, is heating campaigner at CAN Europe, examines how transforming our homes and buildings can protect lives from extreme climate events and colder homes.
More than 60 NGOs, local authorities and trade unions call for “ambitious” revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
30/08/2023 “Making our homes and buildings energy efficient and based on renewable energy […] starts with a strong European policy framework,” the signatory organisations stressed in a joint statement published on 29 August. Deploring a lack of policy action to support building renovation in recent decades, they believe that an ambitious directive would help reduce the EU’s […]
German associations call on their Government to improve building’s renovation rates
On the 19th July, an alliance of 15 industry, consumer, environmental and climate protection associations signed onto a joint letter sent to the German government expressing their concerns over the about the current slump in building renovation rates within Germany. The letter warns that without reducing energy consumption within our buildings, a socially acceptable and environmental friendly energy transition would be impossible.
Joint call for the Spanish Council Presidency to deliver an ambitious EU Building’s Directive
On the 11th July, 2023, ahead of the first informal European Council to be hosted under the new EU Spanish Presidency in Valladolid, Spain, civil society organisations, social and environmental NGOs, trade unions and academia across Spain signed onto a joint statement demanding the urgent and ambitious approval of the new European Directive on the Energy Efficiency of Buildings (EPBD).