Online Event: Energy efficiency: A science advice perspective
Monday 28 March 2022, 12:00 – 14:00 CEST#
Join the ‘Energy efficiency: A science advice perspective’ webinar.
The future of energy efficiency is the theme of the upcoming European Parliament Intergroup webinar, hosted on 28 March 2022. The online event will bring together scientific experts, policy advisors, stakeholders, and citizen representatives to address the Commission’s proposals for new measures to revise the Energy Efficiency Directive.
This event will also present recent evidence and policy recommendations delivered by the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism, based on our report on A systemic approach to the energy transition in Europe and the corresponding Scientific Opinion.
The webinar is hosted by MEP Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Co-chair of the European Parliament Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’.
About the webinar#
If ‘energy efficiency’ was a fuel, it would be the single largest source of energy in the EU. Improvements in energy efficiency since 1990 have reduced primary energy demand by more than 30%. But, while energy efficiency has continued to improve in recent years, this improvement is getting harder and harder to sustain — partly because we are running out of low-hanging fruit.
Households have been responsible for nearly half of the energy reductions since 2000, while contributions from industry and transport have so far been much lower. In response to this, the Commission’s proposal to revise the Energy Efficiency Directive focuses on sectors which still have potential for dramatic savings, such as heating and cooling of buildings, industry, and energy services.
These new measures must clearly be sustainable and inclusive — as is made explicit, for example, in the New European Bauhaus. But will they be effective? And are they enough to get us where we need to go?
This European Parliament Intergroup webinar will bring together scientific experts, policy advisors, stakeholders and citizen representatives to discuss the future of energy efficiency. Last but not least, this online event will also present recent evidence and policy recommendations delivered by the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism.
Final Agenda:#
12:00 – 12:10: Opening remarks by MEP Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Co-Chair, European Parliament Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’
12:10 – 12:20: Joana Drake, Deputy Director General, DG RTD, European Commission
12:20 – 12:30: Diana Ürge-Vorsatz MAE, SAPEA Working Group Member and Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group 3
12:30 – 12:40: Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy Chair of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission
12:40 – 12:50: Tudor Constantinescu, Advisor to the Director General, DG ENER, European Commission
12:50 – 13:20: Interventions from representatives of civil society & industry associations:
Małgosia Rybak, Climate Change & Energy Director, Cepi
Quentin de Hults, Director Green & Healthy Buildings, European Copper Institute
Verena Bax, Energy Savings Policy Coordinator, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe
13:20 – 13:25: Reaction from MEP Radan Kanev, Rapporteur for the ENVI Opinion on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
13:25 – 13:50: Q&A discussion with the audience
13:50 – 14:00: Closing remarks by MEP Petros Kokkalis
