BRIEFING PAPER - UNPACKING COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES TO DELIVER DECARBONISATION IN BUILDINGS

This stands in contrast to the outcome of recent polls highlighting climate as one of the top concerns of Europeans,3 begging the question: as the decarbonisation project deepens, how can policymakers secure a whole-of- society approach to deliver the transition? As the EU prepares for the next five years, facing a more fragmented political landscape, implementation of Fit for 55 is a decisive mom. [...] For example, a collaboration between the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Government of Lithuania and 1 European Commission, 11 December 2019, Press remarks by President von der Leyen on the occasion of the adoption of the European Green Deal Communication 2 European Commission, 28 March 2023, Transcript of speech by Vice-President Timmermans to the Covenant of Mayors 2023 Conference: Cities on. [...] Scope for retraining across sectors: Building Changes and CrossOver13 ran a pilot project for requalification of workers from the financial to the buildings sector.14 The initiative has a twofold positive effect on repopulating the building labour market with a younger workforce and preventing a rise in unemployment after a wave of layoffs in the financial sector. [...] U N P A C K I N G C O L L A B O RA T I V E P R A C T I C E S T O D E L I V E R D E C A R B O N I S A T O N I N 1 1 B U I L D I N G S 5.0 Conclusion: the foundation of a successful EUGD delivery Given the scale and complexity of achieving climate neutrality, collaboration will be the hallmark of the transition to a clean economy.24 Crucially, by bringing together ’unlikely allies collaborative appr. [...] We work on the frontier of the climate landscape, tackling the barriers and advancing the solutions to a safe climate.