Mobility
Sustainable urban mobility plans and the overall layout of a city are key factors in how citizens and goods move around. Local authorities all over Europe are designing schemes that give priority to low-emission transport. Energy Cities also foster integration across mobility modes and, with an increase in e-vehicles, an integration between sectors.
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What is transport poverty and how can cities address it?
It’s easier to become transport poor than energy poor
Reimagining public space with people at the centre
Barcelona’s new Superblock is co-designed with the local community
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Fearless innovation in Munich’s neighbourhoods
Interview with Verena Stoppel and Bernhard Klassen from City of Munich
Since 2016, Munich turned two of its neighbourhoods into a laboratory: over a bit more than 4 years, 20 million euros were invested in testing smart city solutions.
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Smart city Vienna
Smart city Munich
From citizen engagement to citizen ownership – Living Street in La Rochelle
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Finance your sustainable and climate action: Experience from 195 public authorities in your hands for learning and replication
A comprehensive guide
Innovative financing is often an option for local energy and climate projects, but cities and regions need to know better how to activate and use […]
Unlocking investment in cities
Project review of five european local authorities
Energy Cities prepared a review of projects undertaken in the cities of Paris, Malmö, Barcelona, Bristol and Brussels-Capital that received support from the ELENA-EIB facility. The aim of this study is to identify the ways in which technical assistance programmes such as ELENA-EIB can help unlock investment in cities. The projects we reviewed cover a wide array of sectors, from public building refurbishment to public transport or renewable energy production.
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PROSPECT
Peer-powered cities and regions
The overall aim of PROSPECT is to enable peer-to-peer learning in regional and local authorities in order to finance and implement their sustainable energy plans.
CitiZEN
Sustainable Mobility for Citizens in Europe
Efficient and effective urban mobility can significantly contribute to achieving sustainable economic growth and employment opportunities in our cities. It is of huge importance to achieving the EU 2020 objectives as 70% of the EU population live in cities and account for over 80% of the EU’s GDP. Moreover, in many urban areas, the increasing demand for urban mobility has created a non-sustainable environment with severe congestion, poor air quality and high levels of CO2 emissions.
