The aim of this report, commissioned by CEE Bankwatch Network, is to provide arguments why the European Investment Bank (EIB) should apply the Energy Efficiency first principle in its lending decision and explore the most promising mechanisms on how to do this.
Marion Santini, Stefan Scheuer, 2015. Putting energy efficiency first – Reframing the European Investment Bank’s action in times of transition and uncertainty. A study for CEE Bankwatch Network.
Upon request of MEPs, members of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services has drawn a paper on the Cost of Non-Europe in Water Legislation. Their assessment builds on expert research commissioned specifically for the purpose and provided by Triple E consulting – Energy, Environment & Economics B.V.
The overall objective of the expert study was to carry out a combination of a backward looking (ex-post) and forward looking (ex-ante) evaluation of European water legislation. The emphasis is on the ex-post aspect, mainly because of the need to check the level of implementation of existing legislation. The ex-ante aspect aims at assessing the potential costs and benefits of further intervention at EU levelusing five case studies, along the lines of the approach adopted for other sectors and reported in the ‘Mapping the Cost of Non-Europe, 2014 -19’ report.
Contract details: Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services, Directorate C-Impact Assessment and European Added Value
Presented by: Triple E Consulting –Energy, Environment & Economics
Authors: Rob Williams Stefan Scheuer (Stefan Scheuer Consulting) Oscar Widerberg Lisa Eichler Mariya Gancheva
This practical guide for complaints encourages stakeholders, both at national and EU level, to make best use of complaints to the European Commission in order to tackle poor or lacking implementation of the Energy Efficiency Directive.
Frances Bean, 2014, Your Complaints For Strong Implementation of the Energy Efficiency Directive. A guide funded by the European Climate Foundation.
The European Union has three climate and energy targets to be reached
before 2020: a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, 20% of energy
derived from renewables and a 20% increase in energy efficiency. If
these 2020 targets are not met, a sustainable, secure and affordable
energy system will be exceedingly difficult and expensive to achieve.
The Coalition believes that the quality of implementation of other directives has been relatively poor. MSs often transpose EU directives with a view to meeting only the minimum levels of ambition, avoiding complexity or changes to existing national law, even though going beyond minimum requirements can often bring numerous economic advantages and other types of benefits. All actors within the value chains of the sectors covered in the EED, be it industry, buildings, appliances, transport or energy supply, have a vested interest in supporting good implementation. MSs have made a political commitment to the 2020 targets and the Coalition will work to help them follow through on that commitment. The Coalition wants to stress that this guidebook is part of a long-term endeavour, rather than a one-off attempt that will end with its publication.
This guidebook is intended for members of the Coalition and other national, regional and local implementers and stakeholders of the EED, including industry, manufacturers, utility companies and non-profit organisations.
Editor responsible: Stefan Scheuer
Contributing authors and organisations: Andoni Hidalgo (Eurima) Andrea Marandino (E3G) Arnaud Duvielguerbigny (COGEN Europe) Brook Riley (Friends of the Earth) Dan Staniaszek (BPIE) Dora Petroula (Climate Action Network Europe) Eoin Lees (Regulatory Assistance Project) Erica Hope (European Climate Foundation) EuroACE Fran McCrae (Stefan Scheuer Consulting) Ingrid Holmes (E3G) Katarzyna Wardal (European Federation of Intelligent Energy Efficiency Services) Marta Toporek (Client Earth) Matthieu Ballu (Stefan Scheuer Consulting) Randall Bowie (eceee) Renée Bruel (European Climate Foundation) WWF European Policy Office
The French Environment & Energy Management Agency ADEME commissioned Stefan Scheuer SPRL to provide a survey of public budgets committed by different Member States through grant schemes, loans or tax measures to support energy efficiency investments in buildings.
Matthieu Ballu, Paolo Di Stefano, 2012. Efficacité des soutiens publics aux investissements d’efficacité énergétique dans l’Union européenne. A study for ADEME (in French).
The European Union committed itself in 2009 to the reduction of its Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by between 80 and 95% by 2050. The European Climate Foundation (ECF) has commissioned a series of reports from various sector experts to quantify that goal, assess how it can be achieved and what its impacts might be.
Energy Savings 2020 is the latest report in the series. The role of this report is to assess the impact of current EU energy and climate policies and to make recommendations on the design of an overarching energy saving policy framework to achieve Europe’s 20% energy savings target by 2020 as a vital step to meet its 2050 GHG commitment.
The report was commissioned by the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP). Stefan Scheuer was advisor to ECF in this project.
The adoption of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in 2000 was a major landmark establishing new requirements for integrated river basin planning in order to achieve ecological objectives. Ten years of planning and consultation across Europe went into River Basin Management Plans (RBMP), which were meant to be the main vehicles for realising the new water management regime by setting the environmental objectives.
With this fifth snapshot the EEB and its Members have
investigated RBMPs across Europe to get a
quantitative comparison of environmental ambitions, focussing on nutrient
pollution.
This snapshot established serious doubts over the effectiveness of the WFD implementation to change specific and wellknown unsustainable water management practices. Robust nutrient pollution parameters and targeted measures, as they should be used to define and achieve the good ecological status under the ‘one out – all out’ principle, are unnecessarily drowning in complexity and ignorance. These issues have to be addressed in a general and longer-term perspective in the Commission’s 2012 review of the WFD implementation as part of the ‘Blueprint to safeguard EU water’ (EC 2010).
Paper researched and written by Stefan Scheuer (Stefan Scheuer S.P.R.L.) and Joeri Naus (EEB stagaire)
Many chemicals can cause irreversible damage to humans and animals. Emissions of such hazardous chemicals have to be phased out and their uses should be substituted with safer alternatives according to EU water and chemical legislation.
Greenpeace investigated progress with phasing out emissions of the well-known environmental pollutant Nonylphenol in five EU member states, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Spain and the UK. Nonylphenol, a very hazardous, hormone disrupting chemical which presents particular threats to human and animal fertility, has been identifiedby the EU in 2001 for a emission phase out.
In 2003, marketing and use of Nonylphenol and Nonylphenol-ethoxylate as such or in preparations in the EU has largely been banned, but its presence in consumer article is still allowed.
Despite well documented high levels of NP emissions into our aquatic ecosystemand publicly available monitoring data, which show concentrations close to maximum allowed levels, authorities ignore legal requirements to act.
Written and edited by Stefan Scheuer, Advisor to Greenpeace
The European Environmental Bureau and WWF launch benchmarks for Europe’s water policy: Europe’s water at the crossroads. Five headline indicators are presented to measure progress in the ongoing water management reforms under the EU Water Framework Directive. The indicators look at issues like transparency and public onwership of river basin management, provision of more space and water to enhance aquatic ecosystems and making them more resilient to climate change.
Scheuer, S. (2008). Europe’s water at the crossroads. Brussels: EEB and WWF.
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