World Green Building Council

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Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

75,000€

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Relevant projects include

BUILD UPON and BUILD UPON2

Our Europe network is a coalition of 22 Green Building Councils (GBCs). Between 2016-17, 14 of these GBCs received funding under grant agreement No 649727 for the BUILD UPON project.This project is the world’s largest collaborative project on building renovation – bringing together 2,000 organisations, across 13 countries, at over 100 events in 2016-17.

It aims to create a renovation revolution across Europe by helping countries to co-deliver strategies for renovating their existing buildings. These strategies, required by EU law are critical to cutting Europe’s energy use, reducing the impacts of climate change, and creating buildings that deliver a high quality of life for everyone

The second phase of the project started in June 2018 (Grant Agreement No 840926.). This phase of the project involves 8 GBCs in WorldGBC's Europe network working in partnership with Climate Alliance and BPIE. The project involved working with city and national goverment to develop renovation strategies and solutions to scale up energy efficient building renovation.

Energy Efficent Mortgages Action Plan

Between 2015-17, a number of GBCs in WorldGBCs Europe network participated in a H2020 project called the Energy Efficient Mortgage Action Plan (EeMAP). The consortium was led by the European Mortgage Federation – European Covered Bond Council (EMF-ECBC). The project partners are the Ca’Foscari University of Venice, RICS, European Regional Network of Green Building Councils, E.ON, and SAFE Goethe University Frankfurt.

EeMAP Initiative aimed to create a standardised “energy efficient mortgage”, where building owners are incentivised to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings or acquire an already energy efficient property by way of preferential financing conditions linked to the mortgage.



Level(s)

8 GBCs in the WorldGBC's Europe network are currently working on a three year project to implement Level(s), the European Commission’s new reporting framework on sustainable buildings. Level(s) is designed to give stakeholders across the value chain a ‘common language’ and a common set of sustainability indicators.

This project will see GBCs in eight countries work with government and industry stakeholders to explore how the key Level(s) indicators on wholelife carbon, circularity and indoor air quality can be practically implemented on a pan-European scale.

This will involve 4 key pillars of work:
• Aligning Level(s) with Europe’s leading green building certification schemes to provide more comparable data on the environmental performance of buildings
• Supporting the development of good quality data on the environmental and health impact of construction products
• Working with cities and public authorities to align wholelife carbon, circularity and indoor air quality indicators into procurement standards
• Building the capacity of product manufacturers and public authorities to understand and apply the indicators.


Other relevant publications related to our advocacy work https://www.worldgbc.org/news-media/worldgbc-europe-advocacy-manifesto.

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4 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.

• 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 European Mortgage Federation - European Covered Bond Council World Green Infrastructure Network Schneider Electric Climate Action Network Europe European Insulation Manufacturers Association European Alliance to Save Energy European Federation of Intelligent Energy Efficiency Services European Environmental Bureau REScoop.eu asbl The Regulatory Assistance Project Knauf Insulation The European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) Climate Strategy & Partners European Copper Institute Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd European Association for the Consumption-based billing of Energy Costs European Partnership for Energy and the Environment Environmental Coalition on Standards Stichting European Climate Foundation Danfoss A/S European Building Automation and Controls Association Siemens Energy AG The Coalition for Energy Savings

• Date	29 Sep 2021	Location	Brussels - video conference
  Subject	Revision of energy performance of building directive – renovation wave
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 Jan 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Efficiency in buildings in the context of the Green Deal
  DG	Energy
  Attending	Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)

• Date	08 Jan 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Sustainable buildings
  DG	Environment
  Attending	Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)