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While the path to decarbonising Europe's building sector is fraught with challenges, adopting diverse and innovative financing mechanisms for building renovation is crucial to achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal. This article provides a non-exhaustive overview of the current financial instruments available for stimulating building renovation in the EU, sheds light on the obstacles impeding access to these resources and explores ongoing policy efforts and solutions to accelerate the transition towards a more energy-efficient built environment.

This article explores challenges and learnings from a living lab project on energy-efficient renovation in multi-storey apartment buildings in a neighbourhood context. It offers valuable insights for policymakers, building professionals, and homeowners.

The iBRoad2EPC project, funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, developed an affordable, adaptable and modular renovation passport that helps Member States meet most of the mandatory and optional requirements for renovation passports listed in the EPBD, according to their national priorities and targets. This approach also helps Member States to bridge the gap between EPCs and renovation passports, integrating them to motivate building owners to undertake staged deep renovations.

What if citizens could not only be active participants in the energy transition but also reap economic and social benefits?
Collective, non-discriminatory, citizen-driven initiatives that support the clean energy transition and energy communities start mainly as renewable energy projects. These initiatives are increasingly involved in the progressive renovation and decarbonisation of the building sector. They aim at collective social and environmental well-being rather than profit, often with the additional objective of combating energy poverty by making the cost of energy more affordable.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections show rising temperatures in Europe, particularly in the Mediterranean. Cities and homes must prepare for longer and more frequent extreme heat events. COOLTORISE proposes low-tech and bioclimatic solutions to adapt homes and urban spaces of energy-poor neighbourhoods.

In a constantly changing world, the only constant is your team. Built on granite foundations with inherent loyalty, the ARISE team is the star performer in delivering the tools for change. As a team, we have delivered over 55 articles, 12 webinars, and 185 thought-provoking pieces on closing skills gaps to empower industries. However, our best work, with outstanding success and sustainability, is in the ARISE project: Awakening, Relevant, Innovative, Scalable, Equitable, revolutionising the skills interface.

This article demonstrates how the extreme weather conditions affect the buildings' performance of two buildings at the Spanish scientific station 'Gabriel de Castilla' in Antarctica.

LIFE SUPERHERO aims to diffuse the use of ventilated and permeable roofs (VPR) and HEROTILE-based roofs (HBR) as an effective climate adaptation and mitigation solutions based on 'passive cooling'.

The Green Deal ARV organised a workshop on June 5 in Utrecht, NL, as a part of the World Garden City Conference, celebrated their 100-year anniversary.