Slashing emissions in Europe and an ambitious renovation revolution hinge on greater collaboration. The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in the EU seeks to upgrade Europe’s building stock to a zero emissions level by 2050, and the EU is aiming to renovate at least 35 million buildings by 2030. Yet at the current pace, it would take at least a century to renovate Europe’s existing building stock into highly efficient, sustainable buildings, with renovation rates stuck at just 1% per year.

The three steps in Climate Group’s Renovation Revolution handbook are step 1: Understand the barriers; step 2: Learn from best practice, and step 3: Collaborate and drive change.

To achieve the continent’s ambitious energy renovation goals, step 1 of the handbook sets out several key barriers that must be addressed. Step 2 shares scalable and replicable renovation projects from across Europe, implemented by our Renovation Revolution partners. They are Carrier, CBRE, Danfoss, Rockwool, Siemens, Signify and VELUX, and this handbook also draws on the insights of energy and building experts like Renovate Europe and the governments of European states and regions in our Under2 Coalition.

Finally, step 3 identifies five key enablers of progress that the public, private and financial sectors must put in place to overcome the obstacles and accelerate progress on energy renovations together.