
Policy & Regulation
European Commission Directorate-General for Energy and United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (EEFIG) held an event in Brussels this week. The event was hosted by the Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group. EEFIG provided an open dialogue and work platform for public and private financial institutions, industry representatives and sector experts to identify the barriers to the long-term financing for energy efficiency and propose policy and market solutions to them. For the more than 70 participants, the half-day event had two themes: Recent trends in Financing Industrial Energy Efficiency, Challenges encountered and Solutions to Them and moving Forward - How to Further How to Further improve the Industrial Energy efficiency, and Make It More Accessible to SMEs. The second theme concerns moving forward. There was no agreement whether companies should share experience on energy efficiency networks well known in countries such as Germany were shown as an important approach for improving transparency. And there was also a good discussion about how to address perceived risk versus real risks.
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