E- Mich - "Making energy retrofitting free and mandatory"

Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Olivier Malay. 

Inscriptions : Dina Geron : chaire-hoover@uclouvain.be

Housing accounts for a significant share of carbon emissions and is therefore an important part of an ecological transition. In this respect, the Walloon Region's strategy aims at reducing energy emissions from the residential sector by -68% by 2050. The objective is ambitious, and the current rate of insulation is largely insufficient to achieve it. This raises the question of what public policies are needed. After a critical analysis - from a sociological point of view - of informational and incentive policies, the presentation consists of a proposal to make insulation compulsory and financed by a third party payer (through loans and public funds).