Energy efficiency

The 1st Summit on the transition of the rehabilitation financing sector is being organized by the European project AUNA. This project has analyzed over the course of 2 years the financial sector devoted to the financing of building energy rehabilitation. This upcoming event marks the finalization of the project, being its main aim to detect future development opportunities and shape the best strategies to fully address the financing of the full building energy rehabilitation process.

Under the motto “TODOS AUNA, the future of construction at stake”, this summit will address, among other issues, future plans for the building energy rehabilitation sector and the role of banks and the financial sector and their short-term prospects in the sector. The role played by public institutions and their grant schemes for building renovation, together with the new scenarios that allow alliances between the key players in the sector, will as well be addressed.

According to the coordinator of this forum, Emilio Miguel Mitre, "the cohesion and strengthening of the community that we have created under the umbrella of the AUNA Forum will be vital to provide effective and valid answers for citizens."

The event will be held at the headquarters of the Official College of Architects of Madrid and will be attended by speakers such as: Francisco Javier Martín Ramiro, General Director of Housing and Land in the Spanish Ministry of Transport , Mobility and Urban Agenda; Isabel Calzas, General Director of Housing , rehabilitation and regeneration –(Madrid City Council); María del Rosario Casero, General Director of Business at the Official Credit Institute (ICO); Elvira López Vallés, coordinator of the Network of Rehabilitation Support Offices of the CSCAE; or Juan Carlos Delrieu, Director of Strategy and Sustainability of the Spanish Banking Association. Likewise, financial institutions such as Banco Santander, Unicaja, European Investment Bank or Climate Strategy & Partners will be present, as well as European organizations such as CINEA.  

The capacity is limited. In order to attend, prior registration through this link is needed: https://bit.ly/cumbre-AUNA

Please check more information, the speakers and confirmed agenda in the following link: https://www.aunaforum.com/cumbre/

About AUNA

AUNA was born as a permanent multilateral forum promoting sustainable financing in the energy rehabilitation of the building stock. For this, and with the aim of becoming a permanent space where all the stakeholders involved can cooperate, AUNA develops activities such as webinars on good practices, discussion tables or focus groups devoted to the debate on the different financial instruments and rehabilitation management tools, as a sort of open lab for citizens. Furthermore, AUNA also actively participates with other events and projects in the sector under the AUNA CONNECTED EVENT label, reinforcing thus the relations between the key stakeholders in the building rehabilitation and financing sectors.

With funds from the H2020 program, AUNA is part of the Smart Finance for Smart Buildings initiative of the European Commission. In addition, it develops in Spain the work of the Sustainable Energy Investment Forums (SEIF), also an EU initiative, whose objective is to promote investment and large-scale financing to promote sustainable energy.

AUNA also contributes to reach the objectives of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan 2021-2030 (PNIEC) and the 2023 Update of the Long-term Strategy for Energy Rehabilitation in the Building Sector in Spain (ERESEE), in line with the European Directive on Energy Efficiency of Buildings.

The AUNA consortium is made up of nine organizations: GBCe (Green Building Council Spain), Greenward Partners, UCI, CoHispania, AFI (International Financial Analysts), Ecooo, AGENEX, ICCL and AEICE. The consortium is made up of institutions that are complementary to each other, with the support of an Advisory Council that is composed by professionals of highly recognized international prestige in the areas covered by the project.

Its Advisory Board is made up of eleven experts: Juan Carlos Delrieu Alcaraz (AEB), Begoña Leyva Gómez, Francisco Javier Martín Ramiro (MITMA), Rachel Tully (AGENEX), Adrian Joyce (Renovate Europe Campaign), Audrey Nugent (WorldGBC), Peter Sweatman (Climate Strategy), Isidoro Tapia Ramírez (BEI), Miguel Ángel García Fuentes (CARTIF) and Mariangiola Fabbri (BPIE)