Publications

Discover the QualDeEPC Guidebook which provides a detailed description of the set of practical concepts, policy proposals, and tools for an enhanced EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) scheme toward deep renovation.

The “EPAH Handbooks: A Guide to Understanding and Addressing Energy Poverty” is a series of practical guidebooks for local governments and practitioners to ensure that the social dimensions of the local energy transition are addressed efficiently.

A European Environment Agency (EEA) report, published today, shows that prosumption already exists in many forms and it is expected to grow with enabling policies and better and cheaper technology.

The New European Bauhaus has sustainability, beauty and inclusiveness at its heart. These three principles can put Europe on a path to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. LIFE can make an important contribution.

Consultants think there are three layers of smartness in a city. The first one is technologies; the second one change of behaviour (physical and social); the last one is intelligence that should be embedded in smart applications and data analysis capabilities (translating data into alerts, services)

Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council, August 2022

Meeting the Paris Agreement goals will require a huge and rapid scaling of finance from all sources towards climate action. The scale of the challenge is such that all sources of finance – public, private, domestic and international – need to be mobilised rapidly towards clean energy.

Effectively tackling the multifaceted challenge of energy poverty has become more urgent than ever.

The EU is striving to become climate-neutral by 2050. Involving people, communities and organisations is key to achieving this ambitious target, and in 2020, the EU launched the European Climate Pact to help make this happen. Several LIFE projects support the Climate Pact’s ambitions.