PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
RAISE-PT: Roundtables for Action and Investment in Sustainable Energy in Portugal will be a platform in which all types of stakeholders can discuss and develop actionable outputs to enhance sustainable energy investment policy in Portugal. RAISE-PT aims to establish a permanent collaborative community which will work towards improving the policy framework for sustainable energy financing, namely in energy efficiency and renewable energy, and generate further investment in this area to support the clean energy transition. The project arises from the motivation to create a path to improve the policy framework for investment in the clean energy transition in Portugal in public, private buildings, and industry sectors. It aims to enhance national policy and create a continuous dialogue to promote sustainable energy investments by creating and maintaining a permanent collaborative community that will conduct regular national-level roundtables. The permanent collaborative community will produce policy outputs and mobilize investment to energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. RAISE-PT will, thus, create the main forum for sustainable energy investments in Portugal. the project addresses the following stakeholders: Government, local and regional authorities, Financial sector, Energy Service Companies (ESCOs), Homeowners’ associations, Industry sector, Construction sector and Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, Consumers and citizens associations