Policy Issue

Decarbonisation

Basic information

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.

Policy Updates

Publications

Legislation

This section compiles key EU legislation that supports the decarbonisation of the heating, cooling, and industrial sectors. It covers policy measures and legal frameworks designed to increase the use of renewable energy, improve energy efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across buildings and industry. The database contains the most recent publications, but also allows you to go back in time. 

The legislative landscape includes updated targets under the Renewable Energy Directive, provisions for integrating waste heat, and measures to strengthen the training of system installers. Upcoming initiatives like the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act are also shaping the EU’s path towards climate neutrality by 2050. The listed documents reflect how the decarbonisation agenda is being operationalised across sectors through binding and indicative measures.

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