The Budapest Climate Summit is taking place between 7-8 October 2021 in Budapest, bringing together the climate and sustainability stakeholders from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond to network live, in person.

The Hungarian Institute of Energy Efficiency (MEHI) has prepared a study entitled Hungarian Renovation Wave on the various benefits of a largescale building renovation program in Hungary. The study is based on a representative residential survey that examined the willingness of Hungarian homeowners...

How to boost mass renovations?The status and the future of the Hungarian building stock

Conference of the MEHI Hungarian Energy Efficiency Institute in cooperation with The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlandsand Energy Cities7 October 2020.  8:30-13:30(online)

This policy paper summarizes recommendations to make Cohesion Funding 2021–2027 more effective in terms of financing construction and renovation of buildings. They have been drafted by experts of the project consortium Buildings for the Visegrad Future and consulted by several stakeholders,...

The Newsletter focuses on the Energy Service Market in EU Member States. In February, experts from eu.esco, EFIEES and EU-ASE, together with a delegation of National  EPC CoC Administrators, met in Brussels with representatives of the European Investment Bank and the European Commission...

As many as 77% of potential voters identify global warming as an important criterion when deciding who to vote for at the May European elections, according to an opinion poll published 16 April. A new survey by Ipsos MORI reveals how much climate change has climbed up on the priority list of...

Parliament adopted new funding rules to strengthen the EU’s economic, social and territorial cohesion, with 475 votes to 93 and 53 abstentions. 

Natural gas will remain “an important component” of the EU’s energy mix for decades to come, but its role will evolve by the mid-century to become a “complement” to wind and solar power, the EU’s energy chief has said in comments that has ruffled feathers in the...

The European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete, and his two DGs, announced that all 28 Members States have submitted their draft National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), and are made available on the Commission’s website. The Commission has until end of June to...