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Get ready for a successful heat detox in 2025

Get ready for a successful heat detox in 2025

Among New Year's resolutions, there’s no better time than now to commit to healthy heating.

Heating & Cooling
Renewables
Tools & Capacity building
Decarbonisation
Climate neutrality
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Fossil-free cities

20/01/2025

Across Europe, cities and towns are working to decouple their heating systems from fossil fuels to improve air quality, increase independence and reach climate goals. […]
News
Housing Rights: Budapest’s challenges and solutions

Housing Rights: Budapest’s challenges and solutions

Budapest asks for cities to have direct access to EU funds to tackle the housing crisis

Society
Local governments
Sufficiency
Housing
Fair economies

09/01/2025

Can a municipality effectively implement all the necessary measures to tackle problem such as the housing crisis and climate change without EU funds? Like other […]
News
Amplifying mayors’ voices: new opportunities for local leaders to share and connect

Amplifying mayors’ voices: new opportunities for local leaders to share and connect

Energy Cities launches activities for local elected representatives to exchange ideas, discuss challenges and share achievements

Decarbonisation
Local governments
Sufficiency
Community energy
Local governance
Fossil-free cities
Community energy
Food systems
Fair economies

07/01/2025

Our new ‘Mayors Voice’ activities provide a space for local elected representatives to discuss amongst peers, explore solutions to similar challenges, share success stories, and together chart the way forward.
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Driving the Green Deal: Lessons from EU cities’ experiments

Driving the Green Deal: Lessons from EU cities’ experiments

Learn from inspiring case studies on clean energy, circular economy, efficient renovations, and sustainable food systems

Participative governance
Energy efficiency & Buildings
Cooperation
European policies
Energy retrofitting
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Fossil-free cities
Community energy
Food systems
Fair economies

30/12/2024

How can we fulfill the Green Deal? From clean energy to circular economy; from efficient renovations to sustainable food systems, cities around Europe are designing […]
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Örebro’s Tamarinden neighbourhood reshapes energy laws in Sweden

Örebro’s Tamarinden neighbourhood reshapes energy laws in Sweden

Örebro leads by example as Sweden Supreme Administrative Court confirms tax-free energy sharing for its innovative neighbourhood.

Energy efficiency & Buildings
Quality of life
Smart cities
Local governments
Local energy
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Fossil-free cities
Community energy

12/12/2024

In a world where the energy transition is crucial, Örebro in Sweden is leading the way with Tamarinden – an innovative neighbourhood. Designed to be […]
News
Empowering cross-sectoral collaboration for more sustainable cities

Empowering cross-sectoral collaboration for more sustainable cities

A new training will build bridges between the Social Sciences & Humanities, and sustainability policy

Cooperation
Climate neutrality
Local governments
Policy measures
Education
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Local governance
Fossil-free cities
Community energy
Food systems
Fair economies

15/11/2024

How can cities develop socially innovative solutions to advance their climate transition? A free course for researchers and policy professionals has just been released.  The […]
Publications
Transformation agencies to involve local economic actors in the green and energy transition

Transformation agencies to involve local economic actors in the green and energy transition

Examples from Valencia, Vienna and Leuven

Participative governance
Emissions reduction
Local governments
Economic models
Multilevel Governance
Local governance

04/11/2024

To meet their ambitious climate objectives, such as becoming climate neutral, several cities are developing new tools like local agencies to bring together and transform […]
News
The battle for the European budget is in full swing

The battle for the European budget is in full swing

Policy Op-ed

European policies
Local governments
Local governance
Fossil-free cities
Community energy
Food systems
Fair economies

17/10/2024

The new Commission will be officially convened in early December but its President has already taken on the most burning issue of the upcoming mandate: […]
News
How cities are decarbonising their heating systems for healthier communities

How cities are decarbonising their heating systems for healthier communities

Cities and towns share their heat decarbonisation journeys through the Cities Heat Detox Campaign.

Heating & Cooling
Decarbonisation
Local governments
Positive energy districts
Fossil-free cities

14/10/2024

The heating and cooling sector in Europe significantly contributes to CO2 emissions, air pollution and energy insecurity, primarily because over 70% of buildings’ heat today […]
Media
Funding climate action in cities

Funding climate action in cities

Finance & Divest
Funding
Local governments
Local governance

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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SPARKLE

SPARKLE

Sustainable Planning And Resilience Knowledge Learning Environment
SPARKLE

SPARKLE – Sustainable Planning and Resilience Knowledge Learning Environment is a pioneering programme that will develop the capacities of over 600 Local and Regional Authorities […]

REDI4HEAT

REDI4HEAT

Supporting the implementation of key EU legislations on heating and cooling
REDI4HEAT

Heating and cooling represent almost 50% of the EU energy demand and 80% of the energy consumption in households. Yet, it accounts for 40% of […]

SSH CENTRE EU

SSH CENTRE EU

Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellence
SSH CENTRE EU

SSH CENTRE is a Horizon Europe project representing the cross-European Centre of Research Excellence for Climate-Energy-Mobility Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH). The project will engage […]

NECPlatform

NECPlatform

Strengthening multilevel governance in national energy and climate policies
NECPlatform

The NECPlatform project, funded by the first LIFE-Clean Energy Transition call of 2021, aims at supporting six EU Member States (Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal, and Romania) transition to climate neutrality by setting-up and managing permanent multilevel Climate and Energy Dialogue (CED) Platforms in line with Article 11 of the Energy Union Governance Regulation.