Participative governance
An increasing number of municipalities have become facilitators more than regulators. They value their local stakeholders by giving them a permanent seat and by supporting emerging initiatives on the ground. What is needed to turn citizens and businesses into an institutional partner who co-decides a city's energy and climate policy? We defend governance that places local stakeholders at the heart of political decisions.
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The tug of war for Germany’s next climate protection law
Where we stand and what Merkel and her team can learn from others
Time travel : Our letter to incoming EU Commission President
How to get to 2050 and succeed in 2030
German cities demand resolute action on climate protection, including higher CO2 cost, in a letter to Chancellor Merkel
Joint open letter from the presidents of Energy Cities, Climate Alliance and ICLEI
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Best Practices View all Best Practices
Munich’s multi-stakeholder alliance
Engaging citizens for energy-efficiency
100% RES – Towards energy self-sufficiency by 2050
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LIFE PlanUp report on good practices in energy and climate governance
A guidebook on public participation in the EU national energy and climate plans
This new report from the LIFE PlanUp project provides guidance to national policymakers on how to involve cities, civil society, the public and other stakeholders in the design and delivery of EU national energy and climate plans.
National Energy and Climate Plans fail to acknowledge cities’ leading role in the European energy transition
This report intends to present the results of an analysis led in order to determine to which extent European cities were involved in the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) drafting process and local energy and climate actions are taken into consideration by Member States in their NECPs.
Unleashing the power of community renewable energy
How the EU legislation can help to remove barriers to community and citizen renewable energy?
Community energy production in Europe has huge potential. A recent study found that half of EU citizens – including local communities, schools and hospitals – could be producing their own renewable electricity by 2050, meeting 45% of their energy demand.1 Now, building on new EU community and citizen energy rights, the potential must be fully unleashed, to put Europe on the path to the needed energy transformation.
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Renewables Networking Platform
Cities and regions on the 100% renewables road
If we want to increase the number of renewable projects in Europe, we need to set up the right policy frameworks and to connect the right actors (policy-makers, citizens, companies, NGOs…) with each other. This is, what the Renewable Networking Platform project aims at, while monitoring the advances in renewable policies both at national and sub-national levels.
Energy Allies
Transatlantic Multi-stakeholder Dialogues for the Local Energy Transition
We are witnessing how local governments in the U.S. and Europe are rallying to respond to the climate challenge and are driving the transition to a sustainable low carbon future. Showing that citizen and business participation makes climate and energy policies more effective might inspire others to follow suit. That, in turn, could make it easier for national leaders to act more forcefully.
LIFE PlanUp
For strong and inclusive energy & climate plans
Engaging national, regional and local partners, the LIFE PlanUp project focuses on five EU Member States: Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania and Hungary. PlanUp closely tracks the […]
