Europe’s key to deliver on the Climate Agreement – eceee annual policy seminar – 24 November 2016

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eceee information – 3 November 2016

Europe’s key to deliver on the Climate Agreement: Energy efficiency and reduction of demand eceee annual policy seminar
Thursday 24 November 2016

Time and date
Thursday 24 November
14.30–15.00 Coffee and registration
15.00–17.45 Seminar and discussion
17.45–19.00 Cocktail reception

Venue
Scotland House, Rond-Point Schuman 6, Brussels

Registration is free of charge but seats are limited. To register, please contact [email protected]

Highlights

  • The seminar offers the first Brussels presentation of the IEA 2016 Energy Efficiency Market Report.
  • eceee will present its new project on energy efficiency and sufficiency
  • A presentation from the French NegaWatt association. Their energy scenario builds a lot on energy sufficiency (TBC)
  • The Commission is invited to comment on the upcoming energy and climate policy package (TBC)

Scope of seminar
The 2015 Paris climate change agreement has set a long-term goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and the aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C. Energy efficiency is a key mitigation instrument. But efficiency alone will not be sufficient to reach this goal. We also need to look beyond efficiency improvements towards how we can reduce absolute energy demand.

The IEA’s new Energy Efficiency Market Report points to a path forward. The decoupling from growth and energy use is strong and the link between energy prices and energy efficiency has become weaker. The conclusion: energy efficiency policy matters and delivers.

The European Commission has announced it will release its energy policy package on 30 November. What is needed on the EU level? And what can we expect?

Welcome!

Note: The seminar is organised by eceee within the IEE-funded Energy Efficiency Watch 3 with support from the KR Foundation.