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Our mission

The encyclopenergy has a mission to create a contributor-based intelligence repository of worldwide financing solutions, business models, policy and regulatory frameworks which enable energy efficiency in the real-estate industry to offer a free knowledge compendium of enablers to support the scaling of decarbonisation pathways for the global built environment. 

Our Focus

Strong focus is given to innovative projects, demonstrations, pilot applications which push the boundaries of solutions, models and policies thanks to novel technologies and system thinking approaches.

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The “enablers” are either crowd-sourced (give us a hand and enrich the encyclopenergy with your knowledge) or identified and qualified by the Green Digital Finance Alliance (not for profit registered in Switzerland) or its partners comprising associations, universities or recognised market experts.

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What kind of cities do we want to live in? WE NEED YOUr knowledge to aswer

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We are facing an accelerating climate crisis, growing inequality, lack of access to affordable homes, and lack of equal opportunities for all. Cities and their buildings are at the heart of the problem, and therefore also at the heart of the solution.

Buildings emit carbon in two ways: through daily use (known as operational carbon emissions) and via the manufactured cement, steel, and iron used to make them (known as embodied carbon emissions). When adding building construction industry emissions, the building sector accounts for 38% of all energy-related CO2 emissions. However, when buildings operate more efficiently, they consume less energy, reducing GHG emissions per unit.

To reduce building emissions, we need to make energy efficiency mainstream. Yet, fast and disruptive changes are challenging to achieve, given the industry’s conservative nature and the multitude of stakeholders and end-users that need to be addressed. As a result, buildings’ energy efficiency is not moving fast enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. Therefore, a foundational step to empower the shift is to be aware of the best solutions change-makers came up with to address this challenge. Today, information about existing enablers are scattered, definition loosens, and we do not have time.

Encyclopenergy is on a mission to become a repository of innovative financing solutions, business models, and regulatory frameworks to standardise, harmonise and spread knowledge for the transferability of practical energy efficiency models. 

Do you want to make your knowledge about energy efficiency enablers available to others?

Populate the encyclopenergy, discuss and learn about other enablers. The encyclopenergy may be for you, and needs people like you to grow further! Our contributor-based network aims to support the development of new technologies, financing solutions, business models, and regulatory frameworks that create incentives for improving energy efficiency in the global built environment. 

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For further informations about the encylopenergy, please contact us at info@sustainabledigitalfinance.org or simply submit a new form.

Pietro Visetti

Green Digital Finance Alliance, Specialist

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why?

We have found our selves at a crossroads. Buildings energy efficiency is not moving fast enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. Innovative financial instruments, business models and regulatory frameworks are urgently needed.

We can continue in this direction. Or we can explore a new way forward. The encyclopenergy aims to do just that in a bid to streamline and optimise the way the built environment community shares knowledge.

The enclyponergy aims at creating a comprehensive compendium to support the spread and scale of  innovation in financing solutions, business models, and regulatory frameworks to accelerate the transition to a less carbon-intensive built environment.

Who?

The project ‘Climate Positive Circular Communities’, short name ARV, is funded by the European Green Deal initiative as an Innovation Action within the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. The enclycopenergy is a flower germinating from the ARV in order to map the world state of art when it comes to energy efficiency financing, business models and regulatory frameworks. The Green Digital Finance Alliance as an ARV Consortium partner is in the lead of such an effort.

What?

The Encyclopenergy is a crowd-open-sourced encyclopedia of energy efficiency enablers. It is a crowdsourced global catalogue of financing tools, business models, and regulatory frameworks enabling, empowering, and scaling energy efficient solutions for the built environment. It also offers intelligence to list demonstrations and organization working in the field with the hope this will be a boomerang to boost the renovation wave.

Where?

Everywhere. Ubiquitus. Onlline. And in your pocket. The encyclopenergy wants to be a practical tool available to all at all time. You can surf it, download it and populate it from anywhere.

When?

The encyclopenergy is still in its infancy. It was kickstarted on March 1st 2022. Help this living knowledge hub to grow, refine and ameliorate so that it can graduate into a useful tool for a climate positive built environment.

How do we collect information?

Information in this encyclopedia serves for informational purposes only. The information has been crowed-collected from the global community willing to share their knowledge on energy efficiency enablers. Input has been approved by the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA) team by a validation process via desk research following a transparent approach. However, GDFA does make any express or implied warranty or representation concerning the completeness or correctness of information provided. Therefore, GDFA hereby disclaim any liability for any loss or damage resulting from use of information in this encyclopedia or reliance or decisions based upon the information or outcomes of this database.

Legal Disclaimer

Information in this encyclopedia serves for informational purposes only. The information has been crowed-collected from sources believed to be reliable, and input has been approved by the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA) team by a validation process via desk research following a transparent approach. However, GDFA does make any express or implied warranty or representation concerning the completeness or correctness of information provided. Therefore, GDFA hereby disclaim any liability for any loss or damage resulting from use of information in this encyclopedia or reliance or decisions based upon the information or outcomes of this database.Each user and/or third parties are advised that they are responsible for reliance on the database, data, information, findings and opinions provided by GDFA.

 

Any reference to a specific data source, information or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply an endorsement, recommendation, or favouring by GDFA.

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This project has received fundings from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under agreement No 101036723

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