EcoLux – Sustainable Building and Housing in Luxemburg
In a social-ecological expertise, ISOE investigated ways in which the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg could reconcile its goals for climate, housing and social policy.
Research approach
The expertise identified basic conditions, instruments and approaches for a sustainable housing policy in Luxemburg and carried out a qualitative evaluation. The problem analysis was to serve as a basis for discussion on how to realign housing policy instruments in Luxembourg.
Scientists began by examining how housing policy instruments could be realigned to better accommodate ecological and social criteria. One priority was how to guarantee adequate living space for households on low and middle incomes. Another was how to ease the burden of living and energy costs for low-income households (strategies to combat "energy poverty").
Following on from this and by way of example, the team drew up recommendations for linking ecological with social objectives. Furthermore, scientists presented approaches to demonstrate how the existing instrument for housing policy could be optimised and taken further.
The recommendations were devised during several co-ordination sessions with clients and stakeholders from the field of social and environmental policy-making in Luxembourg.
Client
Mouvement Ecologique Luxembourg, Chambre des Salariès Luxembourg (CSL), Caritas Luxemburg.
Duration
Research unit
Energy and Climate Protection in Everyday LifeRelated projects
- Actor survey on the regional energy concept FrankfurtRhineMain
- Analysis of Job Prospects in Energy Saving Advice
- Analysis of the Program "Bremer modernisieren"
- Approaches to long-term effective power saving advice
- Dezent Zivil – New forms of civic involvement when building decentralised energy plants
- Efficient Advice on Electricity Consumption in Private Households
- EiMap – Communication strategy promoting energy-efficient refurbishment during the home purchasing process
- Electromobility for the Darmstadt-Rhine-Main-Neckar Region
- ENEF-Haus – Motivating and Enabling Private Home Owners for Energy Efficient Refurbishment
- Environmental awareness in Germany 2020
- Evaluation of the "Brennpunkt Heizung" (Focus Heating) Campaign
- Evaluation of the Campaign "Gut beraten starten"
- Evaluation of the Cariteam Energy Saving Service
- Homes-uP – Single Family Homes under Pressure?
- Improvement of Marketing Conditions for Green Electricity
- Improving Energy-Efficient Refurbishment of Private Homes
- Intelliekon – Acceptance of Electricity Consumption Feedback
- KlimaAlltag – low carbon lifestyles in the zero emissions city
- LivingSpaces – Instruments for a needs-orientated usage of the housing stock in municipalities
- Perspectives of citizen participation in the energy transition – Heat consulting
- Power efficiency classes for households
- PowerFlex – integrating the heating and cooling sector into the electricity market model PowerFlex
- Renovation 60plus – Age-appropriate approach, advice and support for home and apartment renovation
- Rising Energy Costs, Social Consequences and Climate Protection
- Smart Home from a Customer's Perspective
- Sustainable Modernisation of Existing Buildings
- TRI-HP – Trigeneration systems based on multiple renewable sources