🎉 We’re excited to announce the Advisory Board for #SMARTERFinance for 🇪🇺!

It’s been a pleasure to assemble the board leading the #EULife in the present and future where #greenfinance products intersect with #EUTaxonomy and full spectrum #sustainability in the built environment

Energy transition critics often point to primary energy use to demonstrate that it's going to be impossible.

But 72% of the global energy input is currently lost after conversion.

The problem we're trying to solve here is a lot smaller than primary energy use might suggest.🧵

No heating on for 24h and a chunk of heat put into the hot 🚿 (our HW heat pump takes heat from inside) but the 🏠 is still nearly 20°C. Still surprises me after 10months in the house. #Passivhaus .

*electricians were in doing some snagging and I forgot to turn heating back on.

1/ Ugghhh. Here we go again. Bad journalism. Unless you live in a tiny & completely sealed container, house plants will not do what is purported in this article.

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Good read about the groundbreaking green building in temple bar - 30 years old ⁦The Irish Times⁩ ⁦⁦Jeff Colley⁩

Saw a critique of #Passivhaus recently that claimed MVHR generally only recovered a few degrees of heat. The reality, for quality units and installs, is much better than this. Today, typical winter weather, 12° difference between outdoor & supply temp.

🚨 BREAKING Overwhelming support in Parliament for #RightToRepair , consumer protections against #greenwashing , and products that are made to last 👇

Thoughts in Passive House Plus edition 46 on the Govt. shared equity scheme- do your sums as it could end up being very expensive.. Jeff Colley
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Well put. Jeff Colley AECB

“The default assumption that #climateaction is necessarily hard, expensive, and is going to make our lives worse, must be challenged. We need to get better at telling positive stories about climate action”. Jeff Colley ted.com/talks/jeff_col… Passive House Plus

NEW RESEARCH: My new meta-review of 54 independent studies suggests no major role of hydrogen for heating.

Why?

✅ hydrogen is expensive
✅ hydrogen is inefficient
✅ there are better alternatives

Full paper @cellpressnews: cell.com/cell-reports-s…

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'it's pretty nerdy' and 'if you're interested in the subject, it's interesting' - thanks for those words of confidence from the podcast host there 🤣

1/ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Oh Scotland, we love you!
You've only gone and introduced #EmbodiedCarbon targets and reporting for new AND existing public buildings, PLUS an EUI target with mandatory annual reporting. Bravo 👏 tinyurl.com/3yr8r3fu

OMFG.

“Global mean surface temperature anomalies for the month of September between 1958 and 2022, with projected 2023 value and uncertainty. Temps shown relative to a 1991-2020 baseline period”

HT: Zeke Hausfather

This is a great idea. Imagine beautiful homes in a restored 1960s building overlooking our new plaza. Lights after dark. Life in the city. Carbon efficient. Heritage maintained. Just what we need. irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin…

“Here is hope, the quiet beginning of a story which will continue to strengthen and unfold beyond us.”

A gorgeous article, Catherine Cleary "Code Red for Humanity"

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Was delighted to meet Jeff Colley and colleagues to discuss the findings of the IIEA’s paper on the benefits of energy efficiency in buildings.

#EnergyEfficiency #BuildingLife

BarryC Irish Green Building Council

This was unexpected but a really nice surprise and I’m honoured to have been awarded the Gabor medal by the The Royal Society. But it should really belong to the huge number of people in the UK and worldwide who have worked so hard to understand the complexity of virus transmission.