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Bring heat home

Heating and cooling your home means staying warm, taking a hot shower, and keeping your loved ones safe in the event of a heatwave. These are simple gestures providing health and comfort that most of us take for granted.

A safe and comfortable home starts with clean heating and cooling, the same goes for a secure, competitive and sustainable Europe.

In recent years, the high share of imported fossil fuels in heating and cooling has driven soaring energy bills affecting European households and industries. For a growing proportion of citizens, it has become a problem for making ends meet. For a growing proportion of European cities, it has become a threat for energy security and competitiveness.
The EU Energy and Housing Commissioner has the important task to decarbonise heating and cooling and bring energy prices down. In this context, making clean heating and cooling solutions and building renovations more accessible and affordable for all must be a priority.
Time to bring heat home!
Why #BringHeatHome?
Affordable housing & energy for all

Promoting the decarbonisation and reduction of heating and cooling demands is key to protect Europeans and industries from rising energy prices.

Affordable housing & energy for all
Replacing fossil boilers and promoting building renovations is key to protect Europeans against rising energy prices, but many can’t afford it. With the forthcoming implementation of the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and the entry into force of the ETS2 mechanism, millions of households and property owners must invest in building retrofits and phase-out fossil heating. We have a responsibility to make clean heating and cooling solutions, as well as building retrofits, both accessible and affordable for all.
Keeping cool in heated times

Cooling demands have grown dramatically in Europe, for vital needs such as ensuring the safety of young and old alike in the face of recurring heatwaves, to guaranteeing food safety.

Keeping cool in heated times
Faced with recurrent heatwaves, we must anticipate the growing demand for cooling in Europe to avoid another environmental disaster. For Europe, the risks are not only higher GHG emissions, skyrocketing energy bills, and a significant strain on our energy system. The consequences for public health of unequal access to cooling solution could also be disastrous. By promoting the deployment of clean, efficient local heating and cooling solutions, the European Union can set things right from the start.
Climate action

The decarbonisation and reduction of heating and cooling demands is the “low-hanging fruit” we’ve been looking for to reach our climate targets.

Climate action
Heating and cooling, representing 80% of buildings’ energy consumption and 60% of industries' total energy needs. Speeding up the decarbonisation and reduction of heating and cooling demands is the “low-hanging fruit” we’ve been looking for, to keep the European Union on track of achieving its climate objectives. The building sector accounts for more than a third of the EU's CO2 emissions!
Energy security & competitiveness

Actively promoting the replacement of fossil-fuel boilers and home renovations gives the European Union a unique opportunity to regain its energy sovereignty and competitiveness.

Energy security & competitiveness
Actively promoting the replacement of fossil-fuel boilers and home renovations gives the European Union a unique opportunity to regain its energy sovereignty and competitiveness. In 2024, heating and cooling represented more than half of our energy demand, and a large proportion of Europe’s costly natural gas imports.
Patrons
In order to cut emissions, we need to rapidly increase the share of renewables in heating and cooling. We also need to phase out fossils – including Russian gas – to secure our energy independence.
Sigrid Friis, Member of the European Parliament
"Accelerating heating and cooling decarbonisation is vital to meet our climate goals. It is also central to restore our industrial competitiveness and ensure our energy security in a post-Russian gas Europe."
Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Member of the European Parliament
“Buildings are one of the main sources of emissions in Europe. Renewable district heating and cooling is a key opportunity to reduce emissions and lower energy bills.”
Benedetta Scuderi, Member of the European Parliament
"Green energy is vital for our future and prosperity. Fossil fuels have pushed us to the brink of a climate disaster. Addressing the crisis is cheaper than neglecting it, individual and industrial heat pumps are crucial to solving it."
Martin Hojsík, Member of the European Parliament
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