Since the negative effects of rising temperatures on people’s health have been noted at the administrative and political level, the implication of climate change on people´s health has become more relevant.Thus, subjects such as summer energy poverty are now part of the focus of action.This work has been developed within the framework of COOLTORISE Horizon 2020 project, focusedon raising summer energy poverty awareness to reduce cooling needs and carried out in the SouthernEurope. Regarding Italian, Bulgarian, Spaniard and Greek contexts, specific policy and good practicesfocused on tackling summer energy poverty were analysed in order to define a state of art for policymakers. To this aim, different documents, regional policies, good practices and local agendas fromthese countries were collected and analysed. Three categories were stablished to facilitate a diagnosticprocess.-Policies, good practices, and political agendas focused on measuring energy poverty.-Reports that deepen in wellbeing conditions and urban scale.-Health-related policies.When considering the specific policies related to summer energy poverty at the European level, resultsshow that legislation on the transition towards cleaner energy has already been introduced. Severalreports, policies, good practices and agendas consider the energy poverty perspective and the importance of conducting studies and monitoring.Existing large-scale projects were analysed too. Although projects as Energy Poverty Observatory(EPOV) have been carried out, there is still a long way to go, since not all European Union countrieshave managed to deepen their energy poverty policies.Regarding public health policies, the implications for people’s health have taken on greater importancein the political and administrative spheres because of the increase in temperature observed in recentdecades, and the consequent concatenation of heat waves that occur every summer.Conclusions present a set of proposals which provide policy makers and different stakeholders witha toolkit to address summer energy poverty and to guarantee a just transition with a people-centredapproach
Since the negative effects of rising temperatures on people’s health have been noted at the administrative and political level, the implication of climate change on people´s health has become more relevant.Thus, subjects such as summer energy poverty are now part of the focus of action.This work has been developed within the framework of COOLTORISE Horizon 2020 project, focusedon raising summer energy poverty awareness to reduce cooling needs and carried out in the SouthernEurope. Regarding Italian, Bulgarian, Spaniard and Greek contexts, specific policy and good practicesfocused on tackling summer energy poverty were analysed in order to define a state of art for policymakers. To this aim, different documents, regional policies, good practices and local agendas fromthese countries were collected and analysed. Three categories were stablished to facilitate a diagnosticprocess.-Policies, good practices, and political agendas focused on measuring energy poverty.-Reports that deepen in wellbeing conditions and urban scale.-Health-related policies.When considering the specific policies related to summer energy poverty at the European level, resultsshow that legislation on the transition towards cleaner energy has already been introduced. Severalreports, policies, good practices and agendas consider the energy poverty perspective and the importance of conducting studies and monitoring.Existing large-scale projects were analysed too. Although projects as Energy Poverty Observatory(EPOV) have been carried out, there is still a long way to go, since not all European Union countrieshave managed to deepen their energy poverty policies.Regarding public health policies, the implications for people’s health have taken on greater importancein the political and administrative spheres because of the increase in temperature observed in recentdecades, and the consequent concatenation of heat waves that occur every summer.Conclusions present a set of proposals which provide policy makers and different stakeholders witha toolkit to address summer energy poverty and to guarantee a just transition with a people-centredapproach Read More
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