Monique Goyens is director general of BEUC, the European consumer organisation.
Europe’s building stock currently accounts for 36% of European greenhouse gas emissions. Addressing this will mean future-proofing our homes by thoroughly renovating them. But the complexity and expense of doing so is holding many people back.
As part of Europe’s Green Deal and the EU’s post-COVID recovery strategy, the so-called ‘Renovation Wave’ aims to bring Europe’s building stock into the 21st century by making it more climate resilient. The Strategy aims to at least double renovation rates in the next decade.
However, to be aligned with the Paris Agreement, annual renovation rates will need to quadruple, and deep retrofits – that ensure the biggest energy savings – at least tenfold. This is a massive undertaking.
Government sets out new strategy to reduce fuel poverty
It includes a plan to increase help for vulnerable energy consumers with fuel bills and green upgrades to their homes, with low income families expected to save as much as £500
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The government has set out a new strategy to protect vulnerable households and help drive down fuel poverty while reducing energy bills for “hundreds of thousands of households” in England.
It includes a plan to increase help for vulnerable energy consumers with fuel bills and green upgrades to their homes, with low income families expected to save as much as £500.
Auction of historic corn mill ends multi-million-pound tourism dream in Wrexham
Campaigners have vowed to fight the decision by Wrexham Council to place King s Mill up for auction
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Heritage buffs have been left deflated by plans to sell off an historic corn mill that forms the gateway to the “cradle of the Industrial Revolution .
Partnership By Major Players To Power Growth In The Market
Major players in the global market for electric motor adopted product launch and partnership as its major developmental tactic to branch out its business and enhance its product portfolio. For example, WEG S.A, and Spanish private firm, a leading provider of pork, in January 2019 inked partnership deal. As per the deal Spanish private firm has set up W22 Magnet IE4 electric motors at the Manresa facilities in refrigeration system. In the same manner, Nord Drivesystems in December 2017 rolled out IE4, AC synchronous motors for applications in food & beverage sectors. Via this decision Nord branched out its portfolio of PM synchronous motor.
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