27 March 2013 - While the Coalition welcomes the consultation, the Commission overlooks the importance of an energy savings target in its green paper, focusing instead on a short-term approach that would fail to deliver the structural changes necessary in order to boost the EU's competitiveness and get rising energy prices under control.
14 March 2013 - The European Parliament approved a report on the Energy roadmap 2050 today, calling for three post-2020 targets on energy efficiency, renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions. This vote shows that MEPs support strong policy for energy efficiency and recognise the importance of an energy efficiency target.
11 March 2013 - On 14 March, the Directors General for energy for the 27 EU Member States will gather to discuss the 2030 framework for climate and energy policies. The Coalition has sent in advance of this meeting a letter asking the Directors General to give priority to energy efficiency in their consideration of the climate and energy package.
15 February 2013 - In a letter to EU commissioners preceding this Wednesday's orientation debate, the Coalition for Energy Savings supported the European Commission's decision to release a green paper on climate and energy policy leading up to 2030, and urged the development of an energy efficiency target. The letter highlighted the benefits of energy efficiency and how the EU has failed to make the most of these benefits thus far, despite the job-creating and cash flow potential of energy efficiency initiatives.
19 December 2012 - The Coalition for Energy Savings challenges the interpretation of the DG Energy on art 7. It could lead to a reversal of the achievement and widen the gap again by 27 Mtoe to 121 Mtoe, securing only 13.5% savings by 2020.
13 December 2012 - The Friends of the Coalition for Energy Savings wrote an opionion editorial on the leading role of energy savings in the next energy revolution. Energy efficiency and savings targets have to become the first consideration of the EU’s energy policy agenda for 2030 and beyond.
6 December 2012 - EFBWW represents employees of the construction, wood and furniture sector in Europe with its 72 affiliated unions in 31 countries and more than 2 million workers.
20 November 2012 - On the occasion of today’s Brussels launch of the IEA's World Energy Outlook 2012, organised by the Coalition for Energy Savings, the Coalition calls on the European Commission to make energy efficiency and savings the first priority of European energy and economic policies for 2030 and beyond.
26 September 2012 - The Coalition for Energy Savings organised a workshop on the EED implementation challenges, with Philip Lowe (Director General, DG Energy) and Stjohn O’Connor (Irish Ministry of Energy) to present its expectations on the process.
20 September 2012 - E3G is an independent not-for-profit organisation, established in 2004, that works in the public interest to accelerate the global transition to sustainable development. We build coalitions to achieve carefully defined outcomes, chosen for their capacity to leverage change.
