Tag: home renovation

It’s high time to attack the root causes of Europe’s energy price spike

Europe’s energy crisis has seen consumer bills for gas and electricity reach record levels. But why are we still not addressing its root causes, asks Monique Goyens? Governments must act now to speed up decarbonisation efforts and accompany consumers on...

/ February 25, 2022

Workers are the building blocks of the home Renovation Wave. But in Germany, where are they all?

The skills crunch is posing a big challenge to Germany’s plans to renovate its housing stock.

/ February 14, 2022

How one-stop shops could help consumers take the home renovation plunge: some food for thought from North Macedonia

For the second in our mini-series of blogs on sustainable housing, Marijana Lonchar-Velkova and Sanja Popovska-Vasilevska from the Consumers’ Organisation of Macedonia (COM), from North Macedonia, explain how the Balkan nation is making efforts to boost the energy efficiency of...