Building momentum – European Parliament adopts strengthened EPBD proposal

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ECEEE PRESS RELEASE
BUILDING MOMENTUM – EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ADOPTS STRENGTHENED EPBD PROPOSAL
24 Apr 09 – eceee congratulates the European Parliament on yesterday’s vote for a set of amendments to strengthen the recast proposal for the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. This sends a strong signal to the energy and climate change community, eceee President Peter Bach said.

The recast is part of a package of legislation that will have a significant impact on energy security and climate change policies to reduce CO2 emissions from buildings, particularly important in 2009 during the run-up to the negotiations for a new global climate change agreement to be concluded in Copenhagen in December 2009.

eceee, the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, is the largest member-based non-governmental organisation in Europe promoting energy efficiency, and has long been an advocate of comprehensive and ambitious energy efficiency policies in the buildings sector. eceee President, Peter Bach, welcomed the vote and congratulated the European Parliamentarians for taking a bold, ambitious approach to addressing important energy and climate change concerns.  Earlier this week, he called on Parliamentarians to rise to the challenge because this important legislation was such a key element in Europe’s energy and climate change policies and that there would be a serious impact if the recast proposal were to lose momentum in the decision-making process.

The buildings sector currently contributes about 40% of CO2 emissions in Europe. The recast, once fully implemented, will have a major influence in reducing those emissions. The European Parliament vote signals that momentum will not be lost and that every day counts.  The European Commission estimated that the recast could reduce total energy consumption in Europe in 2020 by 5-6 per cent.  Any delay in approval of the recast would lessen the impact.

The Council of Ministers will soon begin deliberating on its own views of the recast proposal as reflected by member state positions.  The European Parliament vote is an important signal that bold action must be taken if climate change and energy policy issues such as energy security and lowering energy bill costs are to be addressed comprehensively.  Those problems need to be dealt with by an array of policies.  There is simply no single solution.

eceee cannot emphasise enough that energy efficiency is the most cost effective way to deal with these concerns.  While it is not the only solution, as Peter Bach has stated, it is beyond question the first place to start.  Although we have some good energy efficiency policies and programmes in place– in fact, Europe leads the way for many of them – the remaining potential is just too important to be complacent about

And the European Parliament has set the mark.  It has shown it is not complacent, that it understands the importance of the buildings sector and its potential contribution to meeting our climate change obligations.  The focus now shifts to the European Council to show that it too understands what Europe and the wider global community need and want.  And the world needs European leadership.

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