Climate Strategy

Climate bonds initiative, Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, Ashoka, Spain's Green Growth Group (GECV), EEFIG, ICC Spain, International Sustainable Finance Centre, Independent Science Based Taxonomy, Climate Innovation Lab and the Menorca Preservation Fund.

None declared

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

100,000€ - 199,999€

None declared

100,000€ - 199,999€

None declared

none

Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (EEFIG)

CS´CEO was the rapporteur for the Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (www.ec.europa.eu/eefig) from 2013-23. EEFIG was co-convened by EU Commission and UNEP FI. In this role our CEO led the drafting of the landmark 2015 EEFIG Report focused on identifying the barriers and policy solutions to raising energy efficiency investments in buildings, SMEs and Industry. Subsequently, in consortium, CS actively supported the design and launch of DEEP (De-risking Energy Efficiency platform - deep.eefig.eu), a toolkit for banks and the Sustainable Energy Investment Forums. In these roles CS' resources are typically covered by a consortium contract where the lead (COWI) administers a framework contract with DG Energy. In 2020, CS led the working group on correlation of loan credit risks with EE, and co-led the best practices WG that reported for COP26. In 2022-3, CS co-leads the Data and Energy Efficiency First Principle WGs.

In 2018, CS launched a publication entitled "Funding Innovation for the EU's Competitive Climate Leadership" in an event at the EU Parliament followed by a series of bilateral presentations of this work internally at the EU Commission, with Parliamentarians and externally in innovation-focused events. This report was wholly funded by the European Climate Foundation, and contained the consensus views of around 50 experts from NGOs, think-tanks and businesses - none of which were funders. This built on CS' experience under support to a DG Clima contract (J320301088) where it was subcontracted to provide moderation and drafting services to collect industry feedback into the design of the Innovation Fund in 2017.

As expert, CS' CEO is invited to speak at online EU hosted and Brussels based events and workshops on the areas of energy efficiency investment and climate finance. These may include, inter alia: EU Sustainable Energy Week, SET Plan, COPs, Innovation forums, Energy efficiency and buildings renovation finance forums and aspects of sustainable finance.

In 2019, CS worked with DG Regio under contract to support their ex-ante assessment of opportunities to deploy pillar 2 investments in Spain under the MFF 2021-27 in sustainable energy, energy efficiency, distributed energy and smart grids.

CS is funded by the European Climate Foundation to provide technical assistance and reports to improve financial and investment instruments and policies to accelerate the decarbonisation of buildings and Spanish SMEs. CS is funded by Breakthrough Energy Foundation to support the improvement of sustainable finance options for climate solution providers and cleantech start-ups in Europe.

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10 meetings found. Download meetings

The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

• Date	10 Jul 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Financing the transition
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra
  Attending	Olivia Gippner (Cabinet member)

• Date	21 Feb 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Investment for building renovations
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra
  Attending	Daniel Mes (Cabinet member)

• Date	07 Jul 2023	Location	Online
  Subject	The European Renovation Loan - EU level financial instrument for house renovations
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira
  Portfolio	Cohesion and Reforms
  Attending	Wioletta Dunin-Majewska (Cabinet member)

• Date	02 Dec 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	EPBD - Energy efficiency - Minimum Energy Performance Standards
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson
  Portfolio	Energy
  Attending	Stefano Grassi (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Association of the European Heating Industry

• Date	26 Mar 2021	Location	video - conference
  Subject	Taxonomy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	An Economy that Works for People
  Attending	Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Stichting BirdLife Europe

• Date	22 Mar 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Industrial strategy; green transition
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Joan Canton (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd

• Date	15 Dec 2020	Location	Conference call
  Subject	Sustainable financing
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn
  Portfolio	Budget and Administration
  Attending	Kyriacos Charalambous (Cabinet member)

• Date	26 Nov 2020	Location	Virtual
  Subject	Presentation of a study on high-impact climate technologies for net-zero emission recovery
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Camilla Bursi (Cabinet member) Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner)

• Date	23 Apr 2020	Location	Video-conferencing
  Subject	How building renovation can contribute to post covid-19 recovery, how to get renovation projects off the ground, how to remove regulatory obstacles and improve advice.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson
  Portfolio	Energy
  Attending	Thor-Sten Vertmann (Cabinet member) Kadri Simson (Commissioner) Stefano Grassi (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	KfW Bankengruppe Housing Europe European Builders Confederation AISBL

• Date	22 Jun 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Investment in Energy Efficiency
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Energy Union
  Attending	Christian Linder (Cabinet member)