This week’s briefs

There are several good news items that should be of interest to you.

• Website of the week

MED-ENEC is a regional project funded by the European Union. It aims to increase the use of Energy Efficiency measures and Renewable Energy systems in buildings in southern and eastern Mediterranean countries. It has an excellent set of publications on its website that are well worth looking at.

• GBPN Webinar: How to Upscale Deep Renovations Using Financial Mechanisms,

On December 10^th at 3 pm CET, the Global Buildings Performance Network together with the Clean Energy Solutions Center will be hosting the fourth in its series of webinars. Rod will be moderating the webinar. You can register here.

• Climate change and meat consumption

The BBC has recently reported that there is an “awareness gap” about emissions from livestock that could hamper efforts to curb climate change.

A survey showed that twice as many respondents thought emissions from transport were greater than from the global livestock sector. Yet emissions from the two sectors are almost equal, the study explained. It added that the goal of keeping the global temperature rise below 2C (3.6F) would be “off the table” unless there was a change in consumption patterns.

• New eceee report

The European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy has published a policy guide on industrial audits. This guide is the first in a series of eceee policy guides on topical energy efficiency issues, intended for policy makers and decision makers in the public and private sectors. The guides are condensed and popular syntheses of the vast body of evidence-based knowledge on energy efficiency found in eceee proceedings and other scientific literature. Information is available on the eceee website.

• Thought for the week

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. -Alanis Obomsawin, filmmaker (b. 1932)