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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.

The newly developed EU Buildings Climate Tracker finds that the EU is facing a growing gap in advancing towards climate neutrality in the sector.

The quantitative relationship between energy efficiency improvements and lower probability of default of associated loans and increased value of the underlying assets

This module covers basic information on citizen financing, including definition, characteristics, opportunities and barriers, while, also, providing step-by-step guidelines on how projects can be financed and what can be learned from the best practices and case studies in the European Union.

This module covers all these interventions falling under two or more thematic modules; climate change adaption; local electricity production e.g. wind power, hydroelectric power, photovoltaic; and local heat/cold production e.g. combined heat and power and district heating plant.

This module covers the provision of public lighting, such as street lighting and traffic lights owned or operated by public authorities.

This module covers the provision of and management of mass transit by public authorities. as well as private transport.

This module covers buildings and facilities owned, managed or controlled by private individuals. This refers to the tertiary sector (services), such as the private companies, banks, commercial, and retail activities, hospitals, etc. and residential buildings, including social housing.

This module covers buildings and facilities owned, managed or controlled by public authorities. Facilities refer to energy consuming entities that are not buildings, such as wastewater treatment plants.