Brook Riley

Brook Riley

Brook Riley has been working on energy efficiency issues at ROCKWOOL International since March 2017. Before that he spent seven years at Friends of the Earth Europe, leading the organisation’s campaigns to influence the EU’s energy efficiency and climate objectives for 2030

Columns by Brook Riley

May 2021

Lies, damn lies and interest rates

Dec 2020

EU Taxonomy proposals clash with Renovation Wave

May 2020

Play safe, play green: Europe’s covid-era budget

Oct 2019

EU Efficiency Directive undermined by Member State accounting tricks

Mar 2019

Poland’s clean air programme: pathway to climate neutrality?

Jul 2018

How modelling can make or break climate policy

May 2017

Money talks. So do ambitious energy efficiency goals

Apr 2017

Show me the money! Financing energy efficiency

Nov 2016

What energy efficiency can do for EU

Jun 2016

Lies, damn lies and statistics

May 2016

Winning a higher 2030 efficiency target

Apr 2016

Commission’s climate department blocking steeper emissions cuts

Nov 2015

Don't cap efficiency, Commission

Jul 2015

First victory in the battle of the discount rates

Apr 2015

Battle of the discount rates

Mar 2014

Commission 'fixes' data to rubbish 2030 efficiency scenarios

Jan 2014

Who's pulling the strings on EU climate and energy policy?

Dec 2013

Barroso’s credibility at stake on 2030 dossier

Oct 2013

EU Commission under German industry's thumb?

May 2013

Poetic justice on the Energy Efficiency Directive