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Summary
Heating and cooling in the EU accounts for almost half of energy demand. It is still mostly powered by fossil fuels, despite the availability of clean heat technologies such as heat pumps or efficient district heating and cooling, and abundant resources such as solar thermal, geothermal and excess heat.
It’s time to accelerate the transition to clean heating and cooling because it’s the lynchpin for a low-carbon economy and society. Full decarbonisation of heating and cooling is needed to reach climate-neutrality in the EU by 2050. But research commissioned by the Cool Heating Coalition shows that at the current rate of decarbonisation, Member States will fail to do this by 2040 or by 2050.
Clean heating and cooling is key to achieving affordability and energy security – major energy transition challenges. The importance of a sectoral approach to heating and cooling has already been recognised by more than 20 EU organisations and 15 EU Member States in their call for clear political signals to deliver on decarbonisation.
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