August 5, 2026

Improving Energy Efficiency: An Obvious and Urgent Next Step

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Industry, civil-society and environmental organisations have come together to ask European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a binding energy efficiency target for 2040. 
 
Following a summer of extreme heatwaves across the continent, the 93 organisations say that improving our energy efficiency is an obvious, urgent and immediate next step that the EU must take. 

To read the joint statement in full, please download the document above.

  

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