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City actions with creative and practical approaches to shifting our energy system.
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One-Stop-Shop for energy home renovation
Involving and rewarding citizens
Aradippou municipality has set up a local buildings registry to better monitor the energy home renovation works that are implemented by its citizens. It has […]
Sustainable Building Facilitator
A powerful tool for the Region's 2050 Renovation Strategy
Since 2015, Brussels Environment, the public administration responsible for environment and energy in the Brussels Capital Region, has been working on a support scheme for […]
Uppsala Climate Protocol
An inclusive co-design approach to climate neutrality
In Uppsala, local government is working with public and private organisations to design climate goals and the way to reach them together. The Climate Protocol […]
Crowd investing for solar roofs in Križevci
Crowd investing for renewable energy has become quite common in the last few years with many available platforms for managing projects and communication with the […]
Dublin, think energy
A campaign that helps to save energy
Think Energy encourages energy efficiency by working on two linked fronts: To provide information so people can make in-telligent choices about energy use, and to […]
Smart city Vienna
Vienna has a well-established Smart City Framework Strategy putting an emphasis on citizen’s participation and life quality in addition to more “traditional” technology driven approaches. […]
Smart city Lyon
Lyon is constantly evolving and becoming an innovative, sustainable and vibrant smart city. Lyon Confluence – the Smarter Together project demonstration area – is one […]
From citizen engagement to citizen ownership – Living Street in La Rochelle
La Rochelle is a touristic city on the French Atlantic coast that aims to become a slow town, meaning that 80% of the streets will […]
From spinning yarn to carbon budgeting
Manchester Climate Change Strategy 2017-2050 : How a centre of the industrial revolution becomes a centre of the energy revolution:
The city of Manchester played a key role in the industrial revolution in the 19th century. As a former textile capital, the city has a […]
Citizens’ Solar Power Plant
Wien Energie elaborated an innovative model to allow its citizens to take part in the installation of photovoltaics on public buildings’ roofs or just beyond […]
Citizen Engagement at the core of the energy transformation
The Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole Region consists of 49 municipalities, among them the capital Grenoble. The metropolitan area is home to ca. 500,000 inhabitants, out of which more […]
Rethinking urban lifestyles to transform San Sebastián into a carbon-neutral city in 2050
The Basque city of San Sebastián (Spanish), home to about 186,000 inhabitants, is the administrative capital of the province of Guipúzcoa and a major culture […]
