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Learn how to develop bankable projects to finance your transition

Learn how to develop bankable projects to finance your transition

New e-learning course on the Local Transitions Learning Centre: Financing Schemes and Enablers for energy transition

18/05/2026

How to transform your city’s climate goals into serious, bankable projects to successfully finance your local transition? Achieving climate neutrality at the local level requires […]
Advocacy
Making the next EU Budget work for cities and regions

Making the next EU Budget work for cities and regions

The Local Alliance's 10-Point Action Plan

14/11/2025

The Local Alliance presents a 10 point action plan to ensure the EU budget delivers tangible results for people in every territory across Europe.
Advocacy
What’s EUp? 27 National plans for the next EU Budget

What’s EUp? 27 National plans for the next EU Budget

A worrying proposition to renationalise and weaken the EU cohesion policy

29/10/2025

Energy Cities breaks down what's in the National and Regional Partnership Plans proposed in the next MFF, the risks they pose, and why it matters for cities.
Advocacy
Everything cities want to know about the next EU budget in one Q&A

Everything cities want to know about the next EU budget in one Q&A

Answering all of local authorities questions on the EU's next Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF)

21/10/2025

Energy Cities put together a Q&A with the most frequent questions from local authorities about the 2028-2034 Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF).
Advocacy
WHAT’S EUp? The great battle over the EU’s long-term budget for local governments

18/09/2025

What will the next EU budget mean for cities? Energy Cities breaks down the Commission’s proposal and sets out what must change to make it work for people and for Europe.
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Cities speak out for affordable and sustainable housing 

Cities speak out for affordable and sustainable housing 

Energy Cities gathered its board for a meeting with the European Commission on the housing crisis

02/07/2025

How can the EU help cities tackle the housing crisis? Across Europe, prices are soaring, and finding an affordable apartment is becoming increasingly difficult.  Although […]
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Housing rights: Verona’s challenges and solutions

Housing rights: Verona’s challenges and solutions

Verona calls for legislation that allows cities to make targeted interventions to address the housing crisis

04/02/2025

Tourism, lack of funds and regulation, high housing demand. This is the mix that fuels the housing crisis in Verona, one of Italy’s most popular […]
Advocacy
Local Alliance’s vision for a future-proofed EU budget: empowering local communities

Local Alliance’s vision for a future-proofed EU budget: empowering local communities

The next EU Budget needs to be grounded in our local communities through a place-based approach and robust multilevel governance

23/01/2025

The Local Alliance calls on EU leaders to ensure the next EU budget becomes a strong, comprehensive tool for a just, resilient, climate-neutral and competitive Europe. 
Advocacy
Local Alliance warns: €86 billion EU Social Climate Fund at risk of mismanagement due to inadequate governance

Local Alliance warns: €86 billion EU Social Climate Fund at risk of mismanagement due to inadequate governance

New report highlights what’s at stake when national governments sidestep local and regional counterparts

11/12/2024

A new report from the Local Alliance reveals that vulnerable households in the EU are at risk of being underserved by the €86 billion Social Climate Fund (SCF) due to inadequate consultation of local and regional governments by national governments.
Media
Funding climate action in cities

09/10/2024

European cities will need to hire a host of new staff to enact the array of climate measures put forward by national and EU legislators—a difficult task given the budget constraints faced by most municipalities. Claire Roumet of Energy Cities discusses how new funding models for cities can help address staffing challenges.

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EUREKA

EUREKA

European URban Exchanging Knowldge on climAte neutrality
EUREKA

Project context Cities take up 4% of the EU’s land area, but are home to 75% of the EU population and consume up to 80% […]

EU Peers

EU Peers

Building the European community of practice for Integrated Home Renovation Services
EU Peers

Integrated Home Renovation Services (IHRS) offer holistic solutions for home renovations and are part of the enabling framework breaking barriers to renovation. The overall objective […]