Global South-South Development Expo 2013 This Solution Exchange Forum on the “Development of Green Economies through Regional Action Plans and Public-Private Partnerships” will show how developing countries and countries with economies in transition could benefit from and make use of the Action Plans and approaches for public-private partnerships developed by UNECE to promote stronger and greener economies.

1. Action Plan for Energy-efficient
Housing in the UNECE Region
Ms. Gulnara Roll
Head of Housing and Land Management Unit
Gulnara.Roll@unece.org
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2. Why increase energy efficiency in domestic buildi

3. How to achieve increased
housing energy efficiency?

4. UNECE Action Plan for
Energy-efficient Housing
- Accelerate transition
- Broad application of existing technical
solutions
- Remove barriers of implementation
- Policy reforms
3 policy areas
12 goals
178 actions

5. 3 Policy Areas
- Energy efficiency governance and financial
infrastructure
- Energy performance standards and technology
integration
- Access to energy efficiency and public housing

6. I. Governance and
II. financial infrastructure
• Organizational Leadership and Planning
- Introduce framework laws supporting institutional
changes
- Establish structures responsible for EE in housing
- Build statistical database for energy monitoring
• Financial incentives and mechanisms
- Develop system of subsidies
- Improve tax incentives
- Introduce tax on energy inefficiencies
• Housing management, maintenance and refurbishment
- Develop institutional capacities for housing management

7. II. Energy performance standards
and technology integration
• Improve energy performance requirements
- Introduce energy certification for all residential buildings
• Promote innovations in low energy and low-carbon
technology
- Promote passive-house, zero-energy house building
solutions
- Develop on-site renewable energy generation
• Stimulate research, innovations and best practices
• Spatial planning, development practices, district heating

8. III. Access to energy efficiency
and public housing
• Transform of public or social housing stock
- Develop special EE policy for public/social housing
- Develop retrofitting programmes for public housing
• Ensure affordable access to energy efficient housing
- Develop interdepartmental social policy framework
- Ensure lower-income groups are not negatively affected
• Raise awareness and build capacity
- Make EE more visible for consumers
- Support local energy centres and demonstration projects

9. Supporting Implementation
of the Action Plan
Montenegro National Action Plan
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First spin-off of UNECE Action Plan
Assesses legal and institutional framework
Identifies priority areas for action
Focuses on informal settlements
Training Workshops in UNECE Subregions
• Present Action Plan
• Discuss regional challenges and opportunities
• Advise on national application of Action Plan

10. Training Events in UNECE Region
Third International Sustainable Energy Forum
Issyk Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan
• Energy Efficiency in Buildings Regional Training Workshop
• 12 -14 September 2012
Fourth International Sustainable Energy Forum
Tbilisi, Georgia
• Energy Efficiency in Buildings Regional Training Workshop
• 17 - 18 September 2012

11. National workshops
National workshop
Energy efficiency in housing
19 September, Georgia
• Explore possibilities for the development of a national action plan on energy
efficiency in housing sector as requested by the Government of Georgia in
2012;
• Identify key challenges and main priority areas for developing energy eficient
housing
Energy efficiency steps
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12. Best Practice Casebook
on Energy-efficient Housing
• New report to underpin Action Plan
• Identify projects, programmes, policies on energyefficient housing which work well
• Present examples for replication in economic
transition countries
Objective:
• Underline viability of energy-efficient housing
• Trigger interest and increase acceptability of
national stakeholders
• Create demand for energy-efficient homes

13. Best Practice Casebook
on Energy-efficient Housing
Box 1 - Towards an integrated framework for achieving energy efficient
housing
Design a legislative framework composed of energy and housing related legislation, civil code,
property rights and technical norms
Create management structures in multi-family housing blocks that have the necessary technical
information about the building, the mandate to take investment decisions and the awareness
about funding possibilities
Raise awareness on energy efficiency benefits and prospects, make information available to
public and building managers, in particular to change behaviour
Conduct building assessments that provide reliable information on the entire building as basis
for maintenance and renovation decisions and introduce different technical measures
Develop and provide access to financial instruments that support investments in the housing
stock beyond the financial capacity of homeowners’ associations
Source: Based on UNECE (2011): Action Plan for Energy-efficient Housing in the UNECE Region steps
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14. Regional Expert Network
• Brings together professionals of the energy
and building sector;
• Web Link:
https://www.research.net/s/UNECE_ExpertNe
twork
• Commitee is invited to nominate experts
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15. Promoting policy
implementation in the region
2009
2010
2011
2013
Green
Homes
UNECE Action Plan
National Action Plan
Case Book
Good
practices
for Energyefficient
Housing
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- Regional workshops
- National workshops
- Informal network of
partners and experts
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