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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 […]

Policy brief: Claude Turmes pulling off another magic trick

In the middle of the night of 19th to 20th June, a final agreement between the Council, the Parliament and the European Commission was reached […]

Richness of ideas vs. fuel poverty: policy initiatives to make energy affordable for all

These great actions are giving us hope!

At the beginning of June, the city of Cadiz was awarded with the Transformative City award for its action plan against energy poverty. The plan was developed […]

Viladecans – a story of eggs and of a local energy transition agency

We are often told that putting all eggs into one basket is risky. Well, there are some baskets doing actually very well. Read this story […]

EU deal on Energy Union Governance enables local authorities to participate in designing national climate and energy futures

At 4 am this morning, the EU institutions reached an agreement on a key component of the Energy Union, the regulation on the Governance of […]