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.

The chosen policy instrument is the Linköping Municipality Policy regarding Labor Market Strategies with associated action plan and activity plan (in Swedish: (Arbetsmarknadsprogrammet med dess parter). The policy was adopted by the municipal management administration in December 2021. It is valid until further notice and can be revised if necessary. It will be tested for timeliness in connection with a new political term, in this case at the beginning of 2023. The policy is ultimately a municipal issue, but we have a committee and administration with more than 300 employees who work exclusively with these issues and are responsible for implementation. As implementation support, clarifications are made of the policy's content in the form of an action plan and activity plan. The policy as well as the attached action plan and activity plan can be described as our benchmark and what describes our basic assignment in relation to the municipality's other committees and administrations within the municipal group. Follow-up and analysis of the effects on the operations within the municipal group are reported in connection with existing annual accounts, quality and profit and loss accounts.

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 2037 strategy of Lappeenranta city sets an ambitious goal to become carbon neutral by 2030. The target involves achieving net zero emissions, with a focus on reducing CO2 emissions by 65,000 tonnes (-12%). The Green Electrification ecosystem agreement aims to develop Smart and flexible energy grids and buildings, specifically targeting microgrids, energy storage, building automation, and digital services. These goals align with EU directives such as the Building Energy Performance Directive 2024/1275 and the Energy Efficiency Directive 2023/1791 and are key components of the MonitorEE initiative.

To achieve these targets, the city plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% compared to 1990 levels, compensating for the remaining 20%. The transition to bio-based fuels for heat production, utilization of waste heat, and heat storage are crucial steps. Measures in land use, zoning, and building efficiency will also play a significant role. The goal is to increase energy efficiency in buildings, promote renewable energy use, and implement demand response across all properties in Lappeenranta.

Key emission reduction measures include improving the district heating network, energy renovations for public buildings, continuous energy efficiency monitoring, and systematic savings identification. Private buildings will also benefit from energy advisor support to enhance efficiency. These goals will be realized through the City of Lappeenranta's climate program, approved by the city council. The program features over 100 practical actions to support the journey towards these strategic targets. Progress will be monitored using the climate guard, ensuring transparency and public accessibility for citizens.

Private buildings will also benefit from energy advisor support to enhance efficiency. These goals will be realized through the City of Lappeenranta's climate program, approved by the city council. The program features over 100 practical actions to support the journey towards these strategic targets. Progress will be monitored using the climate guard, ensuring transparency and public accessibility for citizens.

Lappeenranta participates in several international networks and EU-level projects that support climate and environmental goals. These activities allow the city to share successful experiences and gain insights from proven models elsewhere. Continuous mapping of best practices is integral to these efforts, with many local innovations stemming from the Greenreality Network. This business-oriented community in South Karelia, Finland, drives sustainable growth and creates new business opportunities in the energy and environmental sector. The network, coordinated by the City of Lappeenranta, includes around 50 members, such as energy and environmental companies, municipalities, and research and educational institutions. The network's subgroup focuses on energy efficiency, smart innovations, and technical solutions for buildings.

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.