Policy Issue

Decarbonisation

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Decarbonisation

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Heating and cooling are essential to modern life – enabling comfortable indoor environments, industrial processes, mass computation, and global distribution of fresh food and medicine. Yet heating and cooling are heavy energy consumers. The EU will have to move towards fully decarbonised, highly efficient, renewable, integrated, and circular heating and cooling systems and technologies, in order to mitigate climate change and ensure cheap and reliable access to heating and cooling for businesses and households.

05 September 2025
The European Commission opened the consultation on the Electrification Action Plan which will promote the switch from fossil fuels to electricity by addressing the key barriers, and by building on existing EU legislation.
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04 September 2025
The European Commission opened the consultation on the Heating and Cooling Strategy which will aim to accelerate the decarbonisation of heating and cooling.
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04 August 2025
The first technical report from the study supporting the establishment of an EU assessment system for the sustainability of data centres has been published.
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01 August 2025
New guidance from the European Commission clarifies how Member States should interpret and implement the new lifecycle GWP provisions of the recast EPBD.
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20 June 2025
The Parliament and Council agreed on changes to the CBAM. These changes are part of the ‘Omnibus I’ simplification package, which aims to simplify existing legislation in the fields of sustainability and investment
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06 May 2025
The EU has appointed a study consultant to evaluate best-practice support measures that promote building decarbonisation, to be financed from ETS 2 revenues.
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17 April 2025
The Commission opened the call for evidence and public consultation for the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act. The deadline for the call for evidence is 08 July 2025, and for the public consultation, it is 09 July 2025.
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11 April 2025
Feedback is open on two EPBD draft proposals: a delegated act on revised methodology to calculate minimum energy performance requirements, and an implementing act on information templates for the EU Building Stock Observatory.
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