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In response to the challenge of tight budgets, Energy Cities provide new innovative financing methods. The network also helps local authorities align their spending and investments with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. This is reinforced by more and more cities unveiling their plans to move out of investments in oil and coal projects. Finally, Energy Cities is pressuring EU institutions for city-targeted and climate-proof EU funding.

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Cities as firefighters lacking ladders and lances facing energy and social crises

Cities as firefighters lacking ladders and lances facing energy and social crises

Mayors call for additional capacity-building support

Finance & Divest
Tools & Capacity building
Local governance

04/04/2022

Eckart Würzner, Mayor of Heidelberg and President of Energy Cities addressed the letter below to the EU Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira, calling […]
Advocacy
Entrenching the just transition into the EU Green Deal

Entrenching the just transition into the EU Green Deal

The Social Climate Fund at the service of a place-based transition

Finance & Divest
Energy democracy
Local governance
Community energy
Fair economies

18/02/2022

The Social Climate Fund proposal has been designed to compensate energy price increases. Its potential would be much greater if it was turned into a […]
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Meet you climate and energy goals with reduced dependence on subsidies

Meet you climate and energy goals with reduced dependence on subsidies

Support through H2020 PROSPECT+

Energy efficiency & Buildings
Mobility
Heating & Cooling
Finance & Divest
Renewables
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Local governance

13/01/2022

The climate targets are increasingly ambitious and the scale of the challenge faced by local and regional authorities all across Europe requires increased use of […]
News
PROSPECT+, capacity building for cities & regions, launches its 2nd edition!

PROSPECT+, capacity building for cities & regions, launches its 2nd edition!

Increase your capacity in innovative financing by joining our new learning programme!

Energy efficiency & Buildings
Mobility
Finance & Divest
Renewables
Tools & Capacity building
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22/11/2021

Cities are the main contributors to pollution and climate change, but they also have the power and opportunity to deliver the highest energy savings and […]
News
Municipal Climate Partnerships as Green Motors for Europe

Municipal Climate Partnerships as Green Motors for Europe

What EU and national policymakers need to do to boost climate action on the local level

Finance & Divest
Tools & Capacity building
Cooperation

27/09/2021

City partnerships are part of the civic backbone of European integration and cooperation. However, their systemic potential as a powerful peer learning structure to roll […]

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EU City Facility

EU City Facility

Financial support and services to cities’ sustainable energy projects
EU City Facility

The mission of the EUCF is to build a substantial pipeline of sustainable energy investment projects across cities in the EU, by providing targeted financial, […]

PROSPECT+

PROSPECT+

Capacity building for cities and regions - from learning to action!
PROSPECT+

A capacity-building programme on innovative financing, by and for EU cities and regions

ORFEE

ORFEE

Office of Renovations and Financings for Energy Efficiency
ORFEE

The project aims to set-up a shared resource platform for third-party financing companies (STF) acting as One-Stop-Shops: The Office of Renovations and Financings for Energy […]

Zero Carbon Cities

Zero Carbon Cities

New climate change targets in line with the Paris Agreement
Zero Carbon Cities

The URBACT Zero Carbon Cities project is led by Manchester. Seven European cities are involved in this project : Bistrita (Romania) Frankfurt am Main (Germany) […]