As energy prices soar, advocates worry that Europe’s policy for how to deal with it is spread out across too many sectoral departments.
More than 40 million Europeans cannot keep their homes adequately warm in winter, and as temperatures soar due to global warming, most cannot keep them cool in the summer.
As the EU pushes ahead with its 2050 climate neutrality target, a question raised repeatedly at a recent Euractiv event on energy poverty has become impossible to ignore: can the clean energy transition succeed if it leaves the most vulnerable households behind?
The event, “Energy Poverty in Europe – How can EU social, housing and climate policies deliver a fair transition?”, brought together policymakers, housing experts and social advocates to put the issue on the map.
Siloed policymaking
