The Regional Government of Extremadura together with AGENEX developed the E4PAREX Strategy (2018-2030) as a measure to fight climate change and strengthen the territorial challenges included in the Green and Circular Economy Strategy (Extremadura 2030) and the European Directives. Its main objective is to reduce GHG emissions by identifying the actions to be taken in these public buildings to boost the transition towards a low-carbon economy. This will be achieved using local resources, creating sustainable jobs and acting as an example in energy and building quality matters.

The Strategy establishes 13 objectives, from which MonitorEE will focus on the following:
- OT2. Reducing 32% of the final energy consumption by 2030.
- OT3. Reduce 57% CO2 emissions by 2030.
- OT4. Cover with renewable energy 29% of the energy consumption by 2030.
- OT5. Train 2.000 professionals in the sector.
- OT6. Increase awareness of 800.000 inhabitants.
- OT9. Integrate measures to have 65 smart buildings (from the 705 targeted in the Strategy).
- OT10. Monitor 100% of the buildings by integrating energy management and control systems.

Due to the medium-term of the strategy, its actions have been divided into 3 different periods:
2018-2020: Some actions foreseen for this period have suffered significant delays.
2021-2025: This is the core period and its action will be influenced by the MonitorEE project.
2026-2030: Last period to achieve the E4PAREX objectives.

Long-term strategy for national building stock renovation by 2050 was adopted by the Government of the Republic of Croatia on 14 December 2020. The Strategy is in accordance with the Building Energy Performance Directive 2018/844/EU and the Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU. The Strategy is adopted every 10 years and updated if needed every 5 years.

The starting point for monitoring the progress of renovation was determined on permanently inhabited buildings in 2020. For residential buildings, the area of permanently inhabited residential buildings in 2020 was reduced by the area of newly built and renovated buildings in 2011-2020, which resulted in useful data on what should be renovated in residential buildings by 2050. For non-residential buildings (commercial and public), the total usable area in 2020 is the area that needs to be renovated by 2050.

There are a number of obstacles to energy renovations, where financial is the major one, accompanied by legal obstacles and insufficient awareness among beneficiaries. Public sector buildings are a special area of interest and appropriate measures are applied to them, like systematic energy management, green public procurement, and the energy renovation program for buildings with cultural status.

The long-term strategy provides measurable progress in the number and in the area of renovated buildings, growing from the current 0.7% per year, to 3% in 2030, then 3.5% in the period 2031-2040 and 4% in the period 2041-2050.

The objective is to ensure/increase energy efficiency in public buildings and support measures for the use of renewable energy sources through the Regional Operational Program 2021-2027. The policy instrument will focus not only on the type of building but also on the technical solutions proposed for the renovation of the building and on the impact on energy reduction.
The activities will be based on energy audits carried out ex-ante which will establish the landmarks and targets of each project. The policy instrument encourages the following types of actions for public buildings: improving the thermal insulation of the building envelope, heating system, and supply of hot water; alternative systems for the production of electricity and/or heat for own consumption; ventilation systems to ensure indoor air quality; lighting installations; and integrated energy management systems.
Starting from the fact that rationalization of energy consumption in the context of efficient management represents one of the core values in reducing consumption, through this project it is intend to identify energy efficiency models for the public buildings based on the MonitorEE's outputs. At the regional level, we will set up an analysis of the energy efficiency and RES in public buildings to foresee regional energy efficiency improvement by the capitalization of the energy-saving potential. This policy should be improved to support the increase of energy efficiency in public buildings.

The Strategy 2037 aims to revive the economic growth and attract new innovative businesses within the circular economy, clean energy sector, and electrification of transport and mobility to achieve a carbon-neutral and smart city by 2030. The key idea is to add value to the strengths and resources of Lappeenranta city by investing in locally selected priorities at the intersection of technology, industry, and societal needs.

The strategy provides a framework for the coordination and follow-up of regional and national innovation activities in close cooperation with the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities. It is monitored and evaluated throughout the strategy period and used as a reference in distributing public resources within the region. Some thematic approaches include energy-efficient electricity uses in production methods for carbon-neutral synthetic fuels (P2X), smart and flexible electricity networks and energy-efficient buildings through automated and ICT solutions. Moreover, the strategy aims to provide provincial, supranational and international RDI cooperation to promote the green energy transition through the city’s led Greenreality Network. Main operations are focused especially on solutions that produce rapid emission reductions from buildings, transport and the power sector. The strategy is linked to several projects including the S3Unica project: energy efficiency in buildings.

To reach the goals of the Climate Plan (CP), the city needs to execute a massive building retrofit operation, between 2018 and 2050: one million dwellings need to improve their energy performance. This means that around 40 000 dwellings in condominiums and 5 000 dwellings in public housing need to be retrofitted per year. The ambition is to have a 100% eco-renovated building stock, but also to make all new buildings low-carbon and positive-energy designed. To achieve these goals the CP engages the city to develop new methodologies to encourage and financially support property owners in their efforts to execute retrofit projects.

Addressing the technical aspect of retrofitting dwellings will also contribute to facing social and economic problems of Parisian households, today around 77 000 households in the city devote more than 10% of their income to the expenditure of energy. The city will develop a methodology to help homeowners with low-income finance energy management improvements.

In addition to building retrofits related to housing buildings, the aim of the city is to reduce its energy consumption by 40% by 2030 on its own building stock and to increase the energy consumption reduction due to the energy performance projects by 60% by 2050.

In Priority 2, environmentally friendly region, under specific objectives:

2 (i) Promoting energy efficiency and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
The scope of actions with regard to buildings, technical equipment and technological processes should result from energy audits.
Under this specific objective, umbrella projects (mainly in the area of housing) are envisaged. The main types of actions carried out in this area will be:
increasing the energy efficiency of multi-family residential buildings; improving energy efficiency in micro and small enterprises; integration or update of heating and cooling systems with heat storage; support for the implementation of the provincial air protection programme; anti-smog resolutions and restrictions and bans on operating installations where fuels are burned, consisting in strengthening the administrative potential of communes; implementation of IT systems supporting air quality management processes.

2 (ii) Promoting renewable energy in accordance with the Directive (EU) 2018/2001 on renewable energy, including the sustainability criteria set out therein.
The main types of measures implemented in this area will concern: construction or expansion of RES power generation facilities with connections and the possibility to build energy storage facilities operating for a given RES source.