Press Release: Too low-hanging fruit is not sweet enough (and eventually neither clean nor cheap)!

At a lunch debate organised by the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) on “The costs of a low level of ambition in greening the heating and cooling sector” and hosted by EUFORES President MEP Jeppe Kofod on 30 January, representatives from industry, civil society, the European Commission (EC) and MEPs from several countries and political groups (Jeppe Kofod, Bendt Bendtsen, Theresa Griffin, Jo Leinen, Gesine Meissner and Paul Rübig) brainstormed on the next policy actions needed for the EU to effectively and fully decarbonise “heating and cooling”, the most important sector for the EU in terms of energy consumption, by 2050, after the recent adoption by EU co-legislators of new energy laws and the publication of the EC draft 2050 Long term Strategy in December last year.