Don’t forget . . .

EU Sustainable Energy Week is here.  There are many excellent events and we all have a difficult time make a choice.  Please check out the EUSEW website for events in Brussels and throughout Europe.  EiD picks are:

• June 26^th  from 09:00 to 13:00, E2B: Innovation in Energy Efficient Buildings and Districts for Smart Built Environment. Its main theme concerns energy efficient technology & innovation research priorities for the years to come in order to meet 3 major challenges: 1) develop systemic, cost-attractive, “geo-clustered” technologies and industrialised solutions for stock renovation; 2) develop interactive and sustainable buildings for Smart Cities; and 3) ensure quality and performance.
• June 26^th at 14:00 from the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE): high-level conference entitled From Ambition to Action: How to best deliver European Building sector policies on the ground.  The event promises to be a lively, debate-oriented and interactive, with high level representatives from the EU Institutions, Member States, industry, civil society and academia to challenge the solidity and strength of the existing vision and initiatives and examine the need for integration, long-term thinking, accelerated practice and better collaboration at all levels. A voting system will be implemented to involve the audience.
• June 27^th 09:00 to 13:00  EiD together with Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes (EEIP) are co-organising: Financing Energy Efficiency: Why bother?  This event brings together high-level policy and business actors for balancing and sharing priories and ideas on the practical ways for driving investment into energy efficiency. The subjects covered will be energy efficiency market, institutional investing, private investors, EU ETS, crowdfunding, insurance, ESCO and ‘green banking.’  Rod will be moderating the event.

And do not forget the consultation on a Commission Green Paper.

At the end of March, the Commission published its Green Paper on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies. The Commission currently has a consultation on the Green Paper, allowing all interested parties to provide their views on how Europe should move forward.  You have until July 2^nd to participate.