Proceedings of Workshop on "Financing of Energy Efficiency in New Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries", Budapest, Hungary, 16-17 October 2006

This book contains the Proceedings of the European Commission DG-JRC workshop on "Financing of energy efficiency in New Member States, Acceding and Candidate Countries",from Budapest, Hungary, 16-17 October 2006. The workshop had the aim to inform key policy makers and market operators (facility managers, ESCOs, building owners and local financial institutions) on the financial opportunities offered by energy efficiency projects, the mechanisms and institutions active in this sector and about possible new local solutions to improve financial availability for energy efficiency projects. European Commission, International and European organisations, Local financial organisations, policy makers, ESCOs and energy efficiency experts from New Member States, Accession Countries and Candidate Countries participated to the workshop. The presentations from these Proceedings covered instruments and solutions for financing energy efficiency, European structural funds opportunities, multilateral and local banks experience, legal and practical barriers successful national schemes, the use of the carbon market and particular flexible mechanisms and a lot of fresh data on the size and efficiency of the current building stock.JRC.H.8-Renewable energie