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8 EEJ 5 (2018-2019)

handle is hein.journals/euenj8 and id is 1 raw text is: August recess is over. Brussels is back at work. A record heatwave in Europe caused crop losses, forest fires, fish deaths and has spurred heated discussions over whether rapid gov- ernment intervention is required: are climate targets sufficient, do we need to act faster, are the right tools in place? An unusually warm autumn has followed the hot summer and the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU has several important files to manage before its conclusion at the end of the year. As usual we provide you with a state of play of Europe's energy policy dossiers. Commission President Juncker announced in his State of the Union address that the Euro- pean Commission has proposed that we stop flipping between summer and wintertime and stick to something permanent. This timeline is conditional on the European Parliament and the Council adopting the Commission's pro- posal by March 2019 at the latest. To remind us: European countries introduced the sum- mertime in the last century to save energy, particularly in times of war or during the oil crisis of the 1970s. In 2018 however, changing our clocks has become much less relevant, with studies suggesting that energy savings are now minimal and citizens increasingly complaining about negative health impacts. A vast majority of EU citizens therefore want to scrap daylight savings rules. How about improving industrial energy effi- ciency instead? Simon Moser, Karl-Heinz Leit- ner, Valerie Rodin and Horst Steinmtiller dis- cuss energy efficiency in the energy-intensive industry and existing barriers to it, optimism around the opportunity and the associated R&D needs. The authors conclude significant effort is needed in order to comply with the EU's 2050 targets and the Paris agreement. The adoption of the Paris agreement will test the ability of society, government and business to work together. Josefina Lindblom takes a closer look at the critical role of the building sector in addressing these complex issues. The European Commission sees in sustainable buildings, together with the construction and real estate sectors, huge potential in helping to achieve the set targets and has therefore de- veloped Level(s), a voluntary assessment and reporting framework to improve the sustaina- bility of buildings. The author explains in detail this regional framework and invites building professionals to take part in its test phase. Mikolaj Jasiak's contribution on energy com- munities in the Clean Energy Package (CEP)

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