The Feminization of Summer Energy Poverty: Challenges and Insights in the Cooltorise Project
Gender inequalities span all aspects of our lives, and summer energy poverty is no exception. A year ago, on…
COOLTORISE
Raising summer energy poverty awareness to reduce cooling needs
Eurostat data reveals that 19% of the total population of the European Union is unable to keep their home comfortably cool in summer.
Households declared not being comfortably cool in summer
19%
Warmest years since 2005
9/10
Caused by low household income, high energy bills, and low dwelling energy efficiency, energy poverty has traditionally been associated with the inability of households to meet their heating needs during winter.
However, up to the 19% of households declared not being comfortably cool in summer. Nine of the 10 warmest years have occurred since 2005, with the last five years comprising the five hottest.
Climate change is increasing both the severity and frequency of extreme hot weather and heat waves, which negatively impacts human health and wellbeing. Thus, cooling needs and overheating risk need to be incorporated into the energy poverty equation.
Cooltorise aims to reduce summer energy poverty incidence among European households, improving their indoor thermal habitability conditions and reducing their energy needs during the hot season, which will in turn decrease their exposure to heat and heat-related health risks.
- Set a common framework on summer energy poverty
- Alleviate summer energy poverty conditions of more than 7,240 people
- Define solutions to tackle summer energy poverty
- Foster women’s empowerment to try to revert the feminisation of energy poverty
- Train energy poverty agents to work with energy poor households
- Accomplish a high level of dissemination that brings to the fore the issue of summer energy poverty
Keeping Cool in a Warming World: COOLTORISE’s Policy Recommendations to Combat Summer Energy Poverty
Did you know that 19% of the total population of the EU is unable to keep their homes comfortably cool during…
Final dissemination event in Greece within the Cooltorise project
On July 30th, IASIS@work hosted a training event in Thessaloniki, Greece, featuring a special presentation by ViLabs.…
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Project products & communication materials
Documents and files archive with methodologies, knowledge, strategy, guidelines and graphical materials, which could be used during and beyond the project end by project partners.
The objective of the training materials is to provide the Summer Energy Poverty Agents with the skills, competencies, and knowledge, to properly support citizens in managing and satisfying their energy needs.
The training materials address energy related technical issues, social questions connected to the theme of energy poverty, and communication methods.
These are the participating entities in the Cooltorise consortium
Participant countries are Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria.
