The first Plenary Meeting of the CA-RES4 was held online from 17th-18th November 2021.
You can find the Session Highlights of all Plenary Meetings here:
The following topics were discussed:
Core Theme 1: Governance, target achievement and cooperation
Session 2: Governance: integrated planning and reporting and the mechanisms for EU
Session 8: Regional Cooperation: Policy instruments as tools for keeping the 2020 targets as baseline and achieving the trajectory to 2030 (e.g. new Union Renewable Development Platfrom and the RES Financing Mechanism) and Offshore RES cooperation (esp.regional 2050-targets, EC guidance)
Core Theme 2: RES Electricity
Session 3: Administrative barriers
Core Theme 3: Decarbonising Heating and Cooling
Session 4: Comprehensive assessment (focusing mainly on renewables)
Session 9: Renewable cooling
Core Theme 4: Biomass Mobilisation and Sustainability
Session 6: Sustainability for biomass fuels, state of play policy and implementation RED II
Session 10: Ensuring reliable sustainability information of biomass fuels
Core Theme 5: Decarbonising Transport
Session 1: Lessons learned: RED I experiences, opportunities and challenges and its influence on the RED II implementation
Session 7: Promoting renewablles in international mobility sectors (aviation/sea shipping/inland shipping); Interaction between sectors within the RED and possibly other (upcoming EU) legislation
Core Theme 6: Consumer/Citizen´s Engagement
Session 5: The development of RE communities in Memeber States: Euorpean & MS legal and regulatory frameworks, transfer of experience
Session 11: Addressing the future of RE communities. Analysis of existing barriers and potential of RE communities development
Joint Session CT1/CT2
Session 12: CEEAG: Reconciling competition and target achievement in times of higher ambition