Final Call: Dec 15-16, The 17th Annual Session of Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS 2022)
The Seventeenth Annual Session of Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS 2022) will be taking place on December 15-16, 2022, with the theme being “Together for a shared safer and greener urban future: resilient, carbon-neutral and nature-positive cities”.
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BUILD UP Ambassadors: we are looking for you!
They are the core of BUILD UP, and the engine that expands the borders of our platform: we’re talking about our BUILD UP Ambassadors, high-ranking professionals that selflessly share their knowledge with our community and spread our values and mission at a national level. If you are tempted to become one of them, please read on for more details about this role, and check the requirements to join our ambassador team!
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State of Energy Management in 2022 [Survey]
2022 has been one of the most hectic years for the energy sector: energy crisis, consumption reduction, and zero carbon objectives. This has only strengthened the challenges Energy professionals have been facing for many years now. More than ever, the objective of sustainable energy management is at the heart of the public debate, notably due to the reinforcement of regulations and the awareness of the energy and ecological transition. This call is crucial if we want to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible.
Daniel Aragón
How can your city access energy planning support?
The Act!onHeat Support Facility includes specific tools and assistance for municipalities to start, complete, or improve upon their district H&C planning, in order to diversify their energy supply, transition to clean, renewable alternatives, and provide their residents with cost saving options.
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Solar energy will become a lot cheaper than gas in Europe
Based on a Norwegian study, in the long term it would be 10 times cheaper to build new solar PV capacity rather than operating gas-fired power plants. In fact, natural gas has become very expensive due to the plunge in Russian gas exports.
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The importance of decreasing the demand of the energy supply
The Managing Director of REHVA shares her opinion on current EU energy policies, highlighting the real causes of the current crisis: the ever-increasing total energy demand and the slow transition to a low-carbon Europe with sustainable energy sources.
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Lithuania leading green-building retrofit in Europe
With a combination of public grants and private financing, Lithuania has carried out 1 billion euros’ worth of energy-efficient building upgrades. Now the EU wants to scale up its success.
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Bill on renewable energies: what changes to expect?
On Monday, December 5, a text was discussed with the deputies of the National Assembly which could give new impetus to the production of solar and wind power on French territory. Here are the main measures it includes.
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BIGG events: from the standardization workshop to the first and upcoming BIGG training sessions
The BIGG project organized on November 8 the standardization workshop “Leveraging on standardisation for building data aggregation and analytics” in collaboration with the sister projects MATRYCS and BuiltHub and hosted by BUILDUP.
Nerea Gómez
The EU plan to accelerate the implementation of renewables
Due to the current energy crisis, the European Commission has proposed a temporary emergency regulation to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy. According to the European Environmental Bureau, such decision would be done at the expense of environmental safeguards and democratic checks and create legal uncertainty.
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