The Cool Heating Coalition has joined the Bring Heat Home campaign, calling for decarbonised heating and cooling (H&C) in the EU. H&C account for nearly half of the EU’s energy demand and around 27% of its CO2 emissions. Decarbonising the H&C sector by rolling out clean heat technologies is crucial to meeting the EU’s affordable energy needs, enhancing industrial competitiveness, and achieving climate targets.
Access to comfortable and healthy indoor temperatures should be a basic right, not a luxury. Currently, 75% of Europe’s H&C is powered by imported fossil fuels, with high costs driving up energy bills for European households. Launched at the Euroheat & Power Summit, the Bring Heat Home campaign calls for a fast-tracked deployment of sustainable district energy systems, heat pumps, and energy efficiency solutions in European homes – highlighting the gains in affordable energy prices, climate action, energy security and competitiveness.
Bring Heat Home has the support of leading Members of the European Parliament, including Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (S&D, FR), Sigrid Friis (Renew, DK), Martin Hojsík (Renew, SK), Niels Fuglsang (S&D, DK) and Benedetta Scuderi (Greens/EFA, IT). Additionally, partners like the European Heat Pump Association, Efficient Buildings Europe, the Coalition for Energy Savings and Cool Heating Coalition member Energy Cities are backing the initiative. Bring Heat Home’s supporters urge policymakers to make clean heat technologies accessible and affordable to the millions of households who will need to retrofit their homes and replace their heating systems in the coming years.
Read Bring Heat Home’s call to action for affordable housing and energy prices.
