Three demands to unleash affordable financing for energy-efficient homes Everyone should be able to live in comfortable and healthy homes. Yet, most of the buildings in the EU are old and do not provide good housing conditions. The walls of our homes are not able to retain or…

Recovery and beyond The European Union has a total of 260 million building units, which represent 40% of our energy consumption and 36% of our greenhouse gas emissions. The building sector is the largest single energy consumer and carbon emitter in the EU. Building is the mother of all…

How to make the ECB’s negative interest rates pay for building renovations This policy paper proposes to turn the European Central Bank’s Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs) programme into a dedicated financial instrument to scale up bank loans for energy efficiency and building renovations.