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Renovation requirements in the EU's buildings directive can do more than anything else to address energy poverty, but without specific policies to help the most vulnerable people and households they could backlash badly, write Anna Bajomi, Caroline Simpson and Brook Riley.
To quit Russian gas, the EU Commission wants to ban fossil fuel boilers by 2029. Some experts are pinning new hopes on geothermal heat pumps.
The EU wants to mandate energy efficiency upgrades for millions of old buildings.
Thousands of buildings across Europe will need to be renovated on an unprecedented scale if climate and greenhouse gas reduction targets are to be met. Lawmakers’ minds are turning to how best to undertake the Herculean task
The EU plans to put the squeeze on countries to make buildings more energy efficient — and that's setting off fears of a clash between Brussels and national capitals and the possibility of a populist backlash. The European Commission wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030, and doing that means a radical rethink of how buildings are treated. About three-quarters of the EU's building stock is considered to be energy-inefficient, and buildings account for more than a third of the bloc's energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. The Commission aims to tackle the is...