Revolutionizing Urban Living: Insights from the STARDUST Project
Harnessing Innovation for Sustainable Cities The STARDUST project, a pioneering initiative under the European Commission's Smart Cities Marketplace, has been at the forefront of transforming cities…
Read Full articlePlans are nothing, planning is everything
In an earlier blog I referred to leadership as the missing element in the drive towards net zero. Now we are seeing leadership on the issue emerging, both nationally – in some countries a lot more…
Read Full articleFrontend Developer EEIP
WHO WE ARE EEIP is a neutral, open and global business and policy platform for the energy transition. Founded in 2011, we are serving a 150.000 user network through our multi-channel platform. We are…
Read Full articleMessage to the investor community: Be that ‘bridge over troubled water’
Just open any news service these days and you are confronted with more evidence that we have no choice but to significantly do more to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Daily we are reading about…
Read Full articleThe European Investment Bank (EIB) revises energy lending criteria
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will phase out support to energy projects reliant on fossil fuels: oil & gas production, infrastructure primarily dedicated to natural gas, power generation or heat…
Read Full articleInvestor Confidence Project (ICP)
Investor Confidence Project unlocks the potential of energy efficiency as a global asset class by standardizing how energy efficiency projects are developed, documented and measured. By streamlining transactions and increasing the reliability of projected energy savings, ICP Europe intends to build a marketplace for standardized…
ICP – the way financial institutions can make fighting climate change a business case
On September 12-14, 2018, San Francisco hosted the Global Climate Action Summit. The operative word is on “action.” At the summit, the Joint Statement of the Supporting Institutions of the Climate…
Read Full articleEnergy Transition goes virtual - the ICP project
VR event @ Hannover Messe 2018 Wednesday, 25th April, 16:00 - 16:45 at Digital Energy Pavilion, hall 12, D45 Contact: juergen.ritzek@ee-ip.org Energy Efficiency is boring We cannot even count time how…
Read Full articleIncreasing the flow of investment into energy efficiency in industry
The most recent EEFIG meeting focused on industry, a sector that is sometimes neglected compared to buildings. I summarised the work on the EEFIG Underwriting Toolkit and took the opportunity to give…
Read Full articleIt's time to act
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognise necessity when a crisis is upon them. -Jean Monnet. French political economist and diplomat who was one of the founding…
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