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🙋‍♀️@EU_BUILDUP's ExpertTalk featured our CEO #PeterSweatman on financial instruments for buildings renovation, covering: 🔸Incentives 🔸Obligations & #EPBD Article 17/9 schemes that scale energy-efficient 🏨 🔸Success factors for effective finance 📺👇 youtube.com/watch?v=ikXzwn…

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

Our CEO just wrote a summary of the @EIB 2025/26 Investment Report and how it provides an insight into the opportunities in Europe presented by #Cleantech and #energy transition, here: linkedin.com/posts/peter-sw…

@Frencheconomics @edwinhayward Ofc it’s not a “world price” the US price for gas is far below the European hub prices

@edwinhayward There is a long form answer that involves refining capacity, chemicals industry, value of GBP and the UK’s Balance of Payments. But it is far easier illustrated by turning the question around. If it is a world price then why are all energy prices around the world equal?

UK electricity generation has fallen 25% from its peak in 2004. Per capita electricity consumption is a third the level of the United States. The UK has the most costly electricity in the world. Half the gas we consume comes from the Norwegian side of the North Sea basin. The residual imported LNG has 4x the carbon footprint of supplying our own. And most depressingly of all the result is a deteriorating UK Balance of Payments, a weaker pound, and a bigger hit to the cost of living. And still the useful idiots want to further constrain UK energy production through high taxes, banning new licences, and gold-plating new energy infrastructure. Their luxury beliefs are behind the awful household disposable income growth of recent years. 🤡.

@ClimateSt 🎯 Nuestro objetivo es acompañar a las #PymesCántabras en la lucha contra el cambio climático y avanzar hacia la descarbonización, impulsando un tejido empresarial más competitivo y sostenible 👉 Pacto promovido por @ClimateSt  #Cantabria #CámaraCantabria #Sostenibilidad

ENERGY REPORTING IS BROKEN! 6 steps to reframe energy reporting in the Age of Electricity... New analysis from Ember's @KingsmillBond team and @MLiebreich 1/6🧵

🧵/4 Other elements analysed: @EIB Climate Bank Roadmap Phase 2 NECP & NBRP/EU Taxonomy alignment European Affordable Housing Plan EU-funded tech for NBRPs Review our [📄] & reflect elements in your contributions! Call for Evidence open until 12/03 ⬇️ climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/clim…

🧵/3 🟩2 MS directly reference Mortgage Portfolio Standards (#MPS) 🟩1 references the EU Renovation Loan (#ERL) Most drafts align with these instruments via data 🔵Infrastructures 📊 🔵Risk-sharing mechanisms 🔵Frameworks = Attracting private capital + safeguarding households

🧵/1 CS shares its response to the @EU_Commission Call for Evidence on updating the Governance of the Energy Union & Climate Action Strong NECP–NBRP coherence = governance as a Union-level driver, turning targets into measurable, investable actions 💶 linkedin.com/posts/climate-…

Climate change is complex, and that complexity is often exploited. Selective data, half-truths & oversimplified claims make it harder to see what’s real and what’s misleading. Before sharing new information, pause, question & verify. #ClimateFactsMatter climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/clim…

Commissioner @danjorg tells MEP @AndreasSchieder that he'll look at #EURenovationLoan in the upcoming 3Q2026 Pan-EU Investment Platform - great news to address the need to save energy in European homes.

🎬 And with that, we wrap up the #CleanTechEU thread! Thank you for joining us and be sure to follow @ClimateSt for updates. Don’t miss out the next Hub #CleanTechEU thread on Wednesday, January 28th

🔍 The Affordable Housing Plan is a clear opportunity to align housing affordability with energy efficiency and building renovation It should look to place building renovation and its financing at its core, including the use of innovative tools like the #ERL

Welcome to the bi-weekly #CleanTechEU thread! 🧵 This week, we focus on the European Affordable Housing Plan and why 2026 could be a decisive moment to address affordability through building renovation and energy efficiency.👇