Energy in Demand News, December 31, 2023

EiD wishes you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2024

Hopefully you had a chance to relax over the festive season and to prepare for 2024. While the EU policy framework for energy efficiency and renewable energy is now in place, every effort must be made to scale up implementation. Check out the column on the eceee website by Rémi Collombet from EuroACE that says the focus is now turning to implementation of the buildings directive

COP28 is over and an important post this week reviews the summit. And do read an overview of the results at COP28 by friend of EiD Gunnar Boye Olesen from the International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE). Let us know your views of COP28.

The eceee Zero Carbon Industry event will take place 30–31 January 2024 in Antwerp, Belgium. The focus is on implementation and meeting our long-term decarbonisation objectives. Early bird registration is now open. Check out the programme. EiD is a partner of the event and Rod is a panel leader. This is an event not to miss.

With so many people planning to travel over the upcoming weeks, here is some useful news to help you along:

• The inews website provides Europe’s most exciting new rail routes for 2024.
• For winter walking, the Responsible Travel website gives you many interesting options
• The EuroBikes website describes winter cycling tours.
• There is always the option of virtual tourism at the Xplore Nature Channel that EiD first promoted back in September. There are now 121 videos.

Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001), American philosopher, educator, encyclopaedist, and popular author gives us a good message on reading good books: “In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

EiD welcomes your views about this week’s selection of posts on the zero-carbon energy transition:

• New EEA report on the EU’s 8th Environment Action Programme
• Switzerland’s KlimaSeniorinnen “among those fighting hardest for a livable future”
• A whole ecosystem has developed in France over the past two years around rail travel, seen by young urbanites as the antithesis of polluting airplanes
• Heat pumps as a service offered in Britain by Swedish company
• Blog by Jane Marsh: The Aviation Industry: The Largest Remaining Source of Airborne Lead Emissions
• European Commission calls on Member States to improve their National Energy and Climate Plans to ensure collective achievement of the EU´s 2030 targets
• Is CCS the way forward in addressing climate change?
• Reflecting on COP28

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