Climate Strategy

EU Legislative Interests

EU Climate and Energy activities. Energy Efficiency Directive. Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. Horizon Europe. Innovation Investment policies and funding instruments. Sustainable Finance Action Plan. EU Green Deal. European Sustainable Investment Plan. Just Transition Mechanism/ Fund. Social Climate Fund & ETS2. Innovation Fund. InvestEU. Multi-annual Financial Framework. EU Taxonomy. Affordable Housing Plan. Clean Industrial Deal. EU Industrial Strategy. EU Renovation Wave. EU Climate Governance. Sustainable Product Initiative. Construction Product Regulation. Green Deal Industrial Plan. Net Zero Industry Act. STEP.

Communication Activities

CS´CEO was the rapporteur for the Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (www.ec.europa.eu/eefig) from 2013-23. EEFIG was co-convened by EU Commission and UNEP FI. In this role our CEO led the drafting of the landmark 2015 EEFIG Report focused on identifying the barriers and policy solutions to raising energy efficiency investments in buildings, SMEs and Industry. Subsequently, in consortium, CS actively supported the design and launch of DEEP (De-risking Energy Efficiency platform - deep.eefig.eu), a toolkit for banks and the Sustainable Energy Investment Forums. In these roles CS' resources are typically covered by a consortium contract where the lead (COWI) administers a framework contract with DG Energy. In 2020, CS led the working group on correlation of loan credit risks with EE, and co-led the best practices WG that reported for COP26. In 2022-3, CS co-leads the Data and Energy Efficiency First Principle WGs. In 2018, CS launched a publication entitled "Funding Innovation for the EU's Competitive Climate Leadership" in an event at the EU Parliament followed by a series of bilateral presentations of this work internally at the EU Commission, with Parliamentarians and externally in innovation-focused events. This report was wholly funded by the European Climate Foundation, and contained the consensus views of around 50 experts from NGOs, think-tanks and businesses - none of which were funders. This built on CS' experience under support to a DG Clima contract (J320301088) where it was subcontracted to provide moderation and drafting services to collect industry feedback into the design of the Innovation Fund in 2017. As expert, CS' CEO is invited to speak at online EU hosted and Brussels based events and workshops on the areas of energy efficiency investment and climate finance. These may include, inter alia: EU Sustainable Energy Week, SET Plan, COPs, Innovation forums, Energy efficiency and buildings renovation finance forums and aspects of sustainable finance. In 2019, CS worked with DG Regio under contract to support their ex-ante assessment of opportunities to deploy pillar 2 investments in Spain under the MFF 2021-27 in sustainable energy, energy efficiency, distributed energy and smart grids. CS is funded by the European Climate Foundation to provide technical assistance and reports to improve financial and investment instruments and policies to accelerate the decarbonisation of buildings and Spanish SMEs. CS is funded by Founders' Pledge to support the improvement of sustainable finance options for climate solution providers and cleantech start-ups in Europe. CS is funded by the European Climate Foundation to provide technical assistance and reports to improve the design and efficiency of financial instruments in the next Multi-annual Financial Framework (2028-34) with a focus on the key climate investment gaps, especially in buildings - always to deliver EU's 2030 and 2040 energy and climate targets, and net-zero emissions by 2050.

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

Climate bonds initiative, Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, Ashoka, Spain's Green Growth Group (GECV), EEFC Consortium, ICC Spain, International Sustainable Finance Centre, Independent Science Based Taxonomy, Climate Innovation Lab, EU Innovation and Finance hubs and the Menorca Preservation Fund.

Organisation Members

Grupo de Crecimiento Verde https://grupocrecimientoverde.org/ International Sustainable Finance Centre https://www.isfc.org/ Menorca Preservation https://menorcapreservation.org/ ICC Spain https://www.iccspain.org/ CleanTech for Europe https://www.cleantechforeurope.com/ Climate Bond Initiative https://www.climatebonds.net/ Climate Innovation Lab: https://www.climatefinancelab.org/ Independent Science Based Taxonomy: https://science-based-taxo.org/