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A binding 14,5% energy efficiency target in 2030 for reviving Europe’s economy
Ten EU business organisations join forces in an open letter addressed to the EU negotiators revising the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). Together, we are calling on the European Parliament and the EU Council to agree on setting an EU energy efficiency target fit for Europe’s climate goals, while ensuring sustainable economic growth and...
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Third Annual EU-ASE High-Level Dinner Debate
Energy efficiency is at the heart the EU energy and climate framework for 2030 and EU regional policy 2014-2020 The European Commission and EU Member States must propose a post 2020 energy-and-climate strategy and plan the use of resources that the EU will make...
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EU-ASE contribution to the public consultation on “A 2030 framework for climate and energy policies”
The 2020 framework was designed without a comprehensive assessment of the synergies and potential trade-offs between the three targets (as recognized by the Green Paper – page 7, 5th paragraph) and had only two binding targets: one for raising the share of energy...
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Second annual EU-ASE high-level dinner debate: energy efficiency at the heart of the New Industrial Policy
Since 2010 the European Alliance to Save Energy has been working to ensure that the positive voices of the energy efficiency industry are heard loud and clear in the EU’s energy policy debate. Our members, some of Europe’s leading energy efficiency solution providers...
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EU-ASE House of Commons debate – 28 February 2012
Common Sense Policy in an age of austerity – why the UK needs a European Framework for Energy Efficiency Over 100 representatives from British businesses and civil society organizations gathered at the House of Commons in London on 28 February, 2012 to discuss...
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Energy Efficiency is the next financial gold mine
Representatives from some of Europe’s largest investors and private enterprises joined Europe’s leading policy makers and stakeholders at a half-day workshop on February 13, 2012 in Brussels to discuss “How to mobilise private sector finance for energy efficiency”....
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“The EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive – An opportunity to support business whilst reducing our dependence on foreign energy supplies”
In June 2011 the European Commission published a new proposal for an Energy Efficiency Directive. The European Alliance to Save Energy (EU-ASE), Europe’s first business led alliance on energy efficiency, had hoped that this piece of legislation would put Europe where...
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