The UNECE Regional Workshop with special focus on South-East Europe
“Housing governance to support housing affordability” is a Regional Online Workshop that took place during the last week of February 2021. It was co-organized by...
The European Climate Pact: all-encompassing climate action for a greener Europe
The European Climate Pact (ECP) is a new, EU-wide initiative inviting individuals, communities and organizations to participate in climate action and building a greener Europe....
National Long-Term Renovation Strategies from all Central and Eastern European EU Member States still missing
It has been already more than ten months from the date when the EU Member States were supposed to submit their newest Long-Term Renovation Strategies...
REELIH project included as best practice in a new publication of FEANTSA
Renovation: Staying on top of the wave is a new publication by FEANTSA. In early December, 2020, FEANTSA organized a dedicated online roundtable where this...
Right to Energy Forum 2020
Right to Energy Forum is an annual event organized by Right to Energy Coalition which unites trade unions, anti-poverty groups, social housing providers, environmental campaigners, health organizations, NGOs and...
Renovation Wave Strategy is out: what to expect?
In October 2020, the European Commission published the official Renovation Wave Strategy with an aim to improve the energy performance of buildings by doubling the...
Build Upon2: project that puts national building renovation strategies into practice
BUILD UPON2 PROJECT There are no more doubts that our planet is in the state of climate emergency. With buildings being one of the biggest...
EU Sustainable Energy Week: Beyond the crisis: clean energy for green recovery and growth
EU Sustainable Energy Week Beyond the crisis: clean energy for green recovery and growth The last week of June traditionally belongs to the biggest...
EU Energy Poverty Observatory: Annual Conference
The main topic of the annual, online conference of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory was the challenges on indoor cooling in the scope of energy poverty. The focus of the discussion was more on the southern part of Europe where energy poverty is connected with rather summer months and extreme heatwaves and resulting inability of people to keep their homes cooled. However, discussed were relevant topics also for Central and Eastern part of Europe for which winter energy poverty is more characteristic.
Energy poverty: European and national approaches. Publication by FEANTSA
FEANTSA-the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless, in collaboration with Fondation Abbé Pierre, published a wonderful publication Energy poverty: What are the foundations for a green and social pact for Europe?
Defining Energy Poverty in Eastern Europe: report from a workshop in Budapest
On November 25th and 26th, 2019 Centre for Social Sciences Institute of Sociology (TKSZI) in Budapest, Hungary hosted a two day International Conference and Workshop on energy poverty under title ENERGY POVERTY: From Household Problems to Climate Crisis. On this occasion, Habitat for Humanity International presented learnings from REELIH project of HFHI and USAID related to energy poverty. REELIH project was not originally designed to address energy poverty in the region. However over the course of implementing the project it was inevitable to start thinking about energy poverty.
