Finally, we are developing a demonstration net zero energy building, and it will be a multi-family senior housing complex when it's completed.

Notes that up to now the 2012 Energy Efficiency Directive and the 2010 Buildings Directive remain to be fully implemented by the Member States; notes that the deadline for transposition of the EED was only on 5 June 2014; considers that cutting costs and reducing energy consumption are in citizens’ and businesses’ own interest; highlights the importance of a strong regulatory framework consisting of targets and measures to incentivise and enable investment in energy efficiency and low energy consumption and costs, while supporting competitiveness and sustainability; adds that some Member States are not making appropriate use of the E ...[+++]U support available to promote the energy efficiency of residential buildings; notes the significant potential for creating quality employment offered by the full implementation of the energy efficiency measures, taking into account that some 900 000 jobs are linked to the supply of energy-efficient goods and services (according to 2010 data).

These projects are in energy efficiency investment to reduce heating bills of private homes in France; new renewable energy and related transmission links in links in northern and western Europe; reduction of industrial energy use in Finland; and improvement to gas transmission in Spain.

CMHC has started an initiative called net zero energy healthy housing, with a target of making all new homes by 2030 net zero energy users, so they would basically consume no energy.

The Green Paper fixes an ambitious objective: to double the contribution of renewable sources of energy to gross inland energy consumption within 15 years (i.e. to 12% by 2010), which would have a net positive employment effect of more than 500 000 jobs.

In specific terms, the Decision provides for the Member States to devise, publish and implement national programmes for limiting their anthropogenic emissions of CO2 in order to contribute to: - the stabilization of CO2 emissions by 2000 at 1990 levels in the Community as a whole, assuming that other leading countries undertake commitments along similar lines, on the understanding that Member States which start from relatively low levels of energy consumption and therefore low emissions measured on a per capita or other appropriate basis are entitled to have CO2 targets and/or strategies corresponding to their economic and social develop ...[+++]ment, while improving the energy efficiency of their economic activities, as agreed at the Energy/Environment Council meetings in October 1990 and December 1991, and - on the fulfilment of the commitment relating to the limitation of CO2 emissions in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be met by the Community as a whole through action by the Community and its Member States within their respective spheres of competence.