{"id":589,"date":"2021-01-03T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/?p=589"},"modified":"2021-01-03T10:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T08:20:36","slug":"renovation-wave-doubling-the-renovation-rate-to-cut-emissions-boost-recovery-and-reduce-energy-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/2021\/01\/03\/renovation-wave-doubling-the-renovation-rate-to-cut-emissions-boost-recovery-and-reduce-energy-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Renovation Wave: doubling the renovation rate to cut emissions, boost recovery and reduce energy poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Buildings are responsible for about 40% of the EU&#8217;s energy consumption, and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions from energy. But only 1% of buildings undergo energy efficient renovation every year, so effective action is <strong>crucial to making Europe climate-neutral by 2050<\/strong>. With nearly 34 million Europeans unable to afford keeping their homes heated, public policies to promote energy efficient renovation are also <strong>a response to energy poverty<\/strong>, support the health and wellbeing of people and help reduce their energy bills. <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/IP_20_1835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">European Commission<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buildings are responsible for about 40% of the EU&#8217;s energy consumption, and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions from energy. But only 1% of buildings undergo energy efficient renovation every year, so effective action is crucial to making Europe climate-neutral by 2050. With nearly 34 million Europeans unable to afford keeping their homes heated, public policies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}