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5th issue of the ENERGISE Newsletter is available!

In recent months, ENERGISE team has been busy with concluding the implementation of the ENERGISE Living Labs (ELLs), and progressing with the analysis both at the country and cross-country levels. For the interest of those wishing to study or set up living labs, all the ENERGISE Living Lab materials have been made available.
The final ENERGISE event will be held in Barcelona on 15th October. Attendance is free and you everybody is welcome to register. The draft programme of the event is also available.

The newsletter is available HERE.

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Energy saving lifestyle experiment ends with success

In response to the increasingly urgent climate change challenge, several climate and energy targets are promoted with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonising the economy. However, the current pace and scale of change is insufficient to achieve the necessary sustainability transitions in energy systems; there is an increasing realisation that meeting energy targets is highly dependent on several complex aspects of final energy consumption patterns or energy demand. As households are responsible for one third of final energy use, they are seen as playing a role in energy transitions - which implies challenging social norms and habits around energy usage in the home.

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Video clip about the ENERISE Living Lab closing event

Here you can find a video clip about the ENERISE Living Lab closing event.

At the event, GreenDependent presented results of the energy saving efforts related to the ENERGISE Living Labs, particularly in terms of the heating and laundry challenges households had taken. Furthermore, presenters invited to the event shared a lot of information about energy efficiency of homes, renewable energy and community energy.

If you wish to learn more about the programme, click HERE.

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Closing event of the ENERGISE Living Labs

The final event of the ENERGISE Living Labs was held on the 6th of April in Gödöllő (Hungary), organised by GreenDependent Institute. The great majority of 41 households participating in the laundry and heating challenges came to the event with their families, therefore more than 100 people celebrated together the successful closure of Living Labs.

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Planting of 500 native fruit trees to offset carbon footprint

GreenDependent Association (GDA), the sister organisation of GreenDependent Institute has been planting native fruit trees for 10 years to offset carbon footprint of events, including the events of GreenDependent Institute (e.g. trainings, opening and closing events, workshops) and the events of other organisations and companies as well.

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EnergyNeighbourhoods programme - halftime


The 7th season of EnergyNeighbourhoods program started in September 2018. 21 teams entered the programme, and out of these 15 are still in the competition. They are from all over Hungary as shown in the map.

 

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Green and sustainable practices at GreenDependent

As the mission of GreenDependent Institute is to “research, develop and disseminate sustainable lifestyles and consumption patterns”, we also place special emphasis on „greening” our private and office lives. We aim at putting sustainable and climate-friendly principles into our everyday practice in the office environment.

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E.ON EnergyNeighbourhoods: trainings for climate coordinators successfully completed

The latest IPCC report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on 8 October 2018 has generated hot debates and conversations worldwide. Along with other green organisations, GreenDependent Institute also joined the issue of a Hungarian press release about the report. The IPCC special report found that ’it is our global interest to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels as adopted in the Paris Agreement. As temperature has risen 1°C already, we need to act immediately. If global emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise in the actual scale, we will pass the threshold of 1.5°C within two decades’. According to the United Nations, consequences of climate change will be irreversible and catastrophic unless effective actions are taken within the next 12 years.

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Press release: ENERGISE Living Labs launching in 8 European countries to co-design effective ways for reducing household energy use

In response to the increasingly urgent climate change challenge, the European Commission is promoting several climate and energy targets with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonising the economy. However, the current pace and scale of change is insufficient to achieve the necessary sustainability transitions in energy systems; there is an increasing realisation that meeting energy targets is highly dependent on several complex aspects of final energy consumption patterns or energy demand. Increasingly, households are seen as playing a role in energy transitions – which implies challenging social norms and habits around energy usage in the home.

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Fresh publications

In July 2018 we have published three atricles in different media. All three deals with different issues: the scientific background of awareness raising and behaviour change, the plastic problematics and energy management.

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