News & Press Releases

27 March 2013 (Press Releases)

No Competitiveness without Energy Savings

Eurima, sees the European Commission's presentation today of the Green Paper on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies as an important opportunity to re-emphasise the need for the EU to boost its competitiveness and sustainable growth with an ambitious, coherent and mutually re-enforcing set of measures and targets, including a meaningful binding energy savings target.

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27 March 2013 (Press Releases)

Energy savings – the missing link to EU competitiveness

Press Release from The Coalition for Energy Savings (of which Eurima is member). Click here to see the document
14 March 2013 (Press Releases)

European Parliament backs energy efficiency target for 2030

Press Release from The Coalition for Energy Savings (of which Eurima is member). Click here to see the full document
11 March 2013 (News)

Directors General to discuss 2030 climate and energy framework

The Coalition for Energy Savings (of which Eurima is member) writtes to the Directors General ahead of the talks on 2030 climate and energy framework. Click here to see the letter content.
18 February 2013 (Press Releases)

BINDING AND MEANINGFUL 2030 ENERGY SAVINGS TARGET: A key milestone for EU long-term competitiveness and jobs

Energy savings must be a core issue in the orientation debate on future Climate and Energy policies that the European Commission College is having this Wednesday 20 February.

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11 February 2013 (Press Releases)

Eurima appoints Sustainable Construction Manager

The Eurima secretariat has re-enforced its expertise in the field of sustainable construction to better service the Mineral Wool Industry in this policy field of growing importance.

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24 January 2013 (Press Releases)

Renovate Europe welcomes Parliament's call for ambitious building stock renovation targets!

The European Parliament’s Report on the Energy Roadmap 2050, adopted in the ITRE Committee on 24^th January, echoes the call already voiced in the EU Roadmap for a low-carbon economy in 2050 as well as in the Energy Efficiency Directive, to urgently address the energy efficient renovation of Europe’s buildings. A Renovate Europe press release, of which Eurima is a partner organisation

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10 December 2012 (News)

European Energy Innovation - Roadmaps for building renovation: 10 key factors for success

Andoni Hidalgo (Public Affairs & Communications Manager at Eurima) writes to the European Energy Innovation magazine

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14 November 2012 (News)

Energy Efficiency Directive published

The Energy Efficiency Directive is now published in the Official Journal of the European Union and will enter into force on 05/12/2012. The EU Member States must transpose it into national legislation by 06/2014. Click here to download the Directive
09 November 2012 (News)

BPIE - Data Hub launched

The Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) launched a data hub for buildings performance and related policies in Europe, www.buildingsdata.eu. This open data portal gives facts and figures collected for the study ‘Europe’s Buildings under the Microscope’ which was released at the end of 2011. It includes a wide variety of technical data never collected EU-wide before.
09 November 2012 (News)

GBPN report: Energy efficiency and energy savings: a view from the building sector

The Economist Intelligence Unit has recently carried out a survey on how real estate and construction executives approach energy efficiency regulation in their business and launched the Global Buidings Performance report: Energy efficiency and energy savings: a view from the building sector. Click here to download the document
18 October 2012 (News)

Habitat Futura - Insulation special issue

Andoni Hidalgo (Public Affairs & Communications Manager at Eurima) speaks to Spanish magazine Habitat Futura's Insulation special issue

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11 October 2012 (Press Releases)

Renovating Europe’s buildings could boost GDP by €291 billion by 2017

Investing in building renovation could accrue up to €175 billion per year for public finances with an additional "one-off" boost to GDP in the range of €153 to €291 billion for the years up to and including 2017. This is according to a new report prepared by Copenhagen Economics for the Renovate Europe Campaign of which Eurima is a partner organisation. Click here to see the press release
10 October 2012 (Press Releases)

Building renovation roadmaps must go deep!

A recent report commissioned by Eurima from Ecofys shows that Member States must choose an ambitious path for their long-term building renovation roadmaps - this will provide enormous environmental benefits, huge energy savings and massive job creation at costs similar to other, less well designed options

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10 July 2012 (Press Releases)

Looking to make a sustainable difference for our citizens, cities and regions? Secure Earmarking for Energy Efficiency in Buildings in the EU Structural Funds

On 11th and 12th July, members of the REGI Committee in the European Parliament will vote on 6 reports on Cohesion Policy. These reports will shape the investment priorities of EU spending for Europe’s regions over the next 7 years.

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