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How can local and national governments accelerate energy retrofitting in condominiums?
Get insights from practitioners during the ACE-Retrofitting Conference
According to Eurostat 2017, 42% of the European population currently live in flats (condominiums, multi-owned properties, tenements, social housing, etc.). Retrofitting condominiums (tenements and flatted […]
Plymouth: citizen-led approaches to municipal retrofit
A lasting relationship built between City Council and residents
Guest author Laura Williams works for Carbon Co-op, a UK-based energy services and advocacy co-operative. Like Energy Cities, the organisation is part of the mPower […]
Cadiz joins Energy Cities’ community!
Fair energy and climate actions in the focus
The city of Cadiz in the very South of Spain joins Energy Cities network in October. This vibrant city of 117.000 inhabitants has made significant […]
Intracting, Green bonds, Citizen financing, EPC and much more, on the menu of PROSPECT next learning cycle
As many opportunities for local authorities to find out how to unlock resources for their local projects! Apply before 30 September!
The fourth and last H2020 PROSPECT learning cycle on innovative financing for local energy and climate projects, will start this November 2019, following an ongoing […]
Innovative financing for cities
Five free handbooks to improve your city's energy performance
The PROSPECT H2020 learning programme enables peer-to-peer learning in regional and local authorities in order to finance and implement their sustainable energy and climate action plans. The […]
Energy Cities welcomes 4 new member cities
The cities of Krizevci, Vienna, Valencia and Vilvoorde join the Energy Cities’ network!
The Energy Cities community has recently welcomed some new members. We are very happy and proud to have Krizevci, Vienna, Valencia and Vilvoorde among us! […]
How Münster´s sufficiency strategy helped to overcome three universal challenges
No transformation without a vision
The city of Münster has bold 2050 goals: being almost climate neutral while reducing their final energy consumption by 50% and their GHG emissions by […]
230 million, 233,000, 23%… 2018 key figures of the Covenant of Mayors in Europe!
Europe's major city-backed energy and climate initiative keeps growing
In a constantly evolving policy context, the Covenant of Mayors Community has been achieving great results. Supported by the Covenant of Mayors Office with capacity-building […]
This small town model will improve energy efficiency in your buildings!
Aradippou's financing solutions for energy efficiency actions
Located at the outskirts of Larnaca (Cyprus), Aradippou is a small town with a big vision. Thanks to its size, its homogeneous building stock and […]
Tampere cuts energy costs in buildings by 50%
After the TARMO+ project promoting low-energy and carbon solutions in residential housing, last June Tampere welcomed an open house event in two recently retrofitted buildings as part […]
Copenhagenize your streets, Paris-ize your buildings, Ghent-ize citizen participation!
About cities and towns’ amazing willingness to change for the better. Anyone who already visited Copenhagen would have been amazed by the local bicycle culture. […]
Spain: new policy, new energy for cities
Guest article by Fernando Ferrando, President of Fundación Renovables
Spain recently made quite remarkable strides in the energy domain. The country’s newly created Ministry for Ecological Transition is headed up by Teresa Ribera, an […]
