News item | 04-12-2024 | 10:07
What is the value of European investments in sustainability? And what does the Recovery and Resilience Facility mean for the Netherlands and the European Union? These questions were central to the event on the Dutch Recovery and Resilience Plan (HVP) on December 3 at the House of Europe. The HVP program directorate of the Ministry of Finance organized this day to discuss the HVP and sustainability together with colleagues involved in the implementation of the plan, stakeholders and the European Commission.
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Jasper Wesseling, Treasurer General at the Ministry of Finance, and Maarten Verwey, Director General of Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission, reflected on the European corona recovery fund and the Dutch plan and their contributions to sustainability. The importance of European investments in sustainability was further explained in a panel by Maite Fabregas from the European Commission’s Recovery and Resilience task force, Ed Buddenbaum from Groenkracht Nederland, Wimar Bolhuis from TNO Vector and Brenda Kramer from the Sustainable Finance Lab.
In the afternoon a visit was made to the monumental electricity factory in The Hague at De Constant Rebecqueplein. This power station, which now functions as a breeding ground for creative talent, is being made more sustainable with the help of the Sustainable Social Real Estate subsidy scheme, one of the measures from the Dutch HVP. The De Constant Rebecqueplein Foundation and the Municipality of The Hague talked about the activities being carried out to make the electricity factory more sustainable. In the subsequent tour, visitors were taken through various projects, such as the construction of the facades and the roof. Thanks to these activities, the electricity factory is made future-proof.