LAUNCH OF OBSERVATOIRE CETELEM HABITAT 2024

To fight against climate changes, the European Commission adopted in 2020 its strategy for a general building renovation wave. Indeed, housing is responsible for 40% of the EU’s total energy consumption and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions. Europe’s housing stock is weighing heavily on the climate challenge.

The strategy aims to improve the energy performance of buildings by starting a wave of major renovation works. According to the Commission, more than 220 million buildings built before 2001 must be renovated. This represents 85% of the housing stock in the EU Member States. Yet, only 1% of buildings renovations include energy efficiency. Moreover, global renovations that will reduce energy consumption by, at least 60%, only concerns 0.2% of buildings. 

In order to achieve the green pact for Europe’s objective of carbon neutrality by 2050, we urgently need to step up the pace.

The conclusion of this edition? Energy renovation of housing faces a major challenge: the need to change scale in all European countries. But what do Europeans think about energy housing renovation and where are they at?

But what do Europeans think and where are they ?