Policy measures
How are cities responding to the challenge of fossil-free cooling and rising heat?
Discover how European cities are dealing with the increased need of cooling while moving on the decarbonisation of their energy system
Fossil-free cities03/07/2025
Cities speak out for affordable and sustainable housing
Energy Cities gathered its board for a meeting with the European Commission on the housing crisis
Fair economies02/07/2025
The EUCityCalc learning programme: design your city’s transition pathway
Use your city’s data to compare measures, create scenarios, and make informed policy decisions
Local governance
Community energy
Food systems17/03/2025
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
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
30/12/2024
Housing Rights: A goal still out of reach
Budapest, Verona, Lille and Nantes Metropolises share issues and solutions for public housing and ask to be supported by the new EU Housing Commissioner
17/12/2024
Empowering cross-sectoral collaboration for more sustainable cities
A new training will build bridges between the Social Sciences & Humanities, and sustainability policy
15/11/2024
Reduce Resource Use For A Fairer, Cleaner, And More Resilient Europe
Together with other 13 associations, we sent a briefing to the new MEPs urging them to take action
07/10/2024
Ads-free streets: let’s give public space back to citizens
Vice-President Philippe Guelpa-Bonaro shares with us Lyon Métropole’s experience in reducing advertising
27/08/2024
Are EU countries following the “no-net-land take in 2050” recommendation?
Despite non-binding targets, some countries and regions are taking action to limit urban sprawling
02/05/2024
Projects All projects
REDI4HEAT
Supporting the implementation of key EU legislations on heating and cooling
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 […]
NECPlatform
Strengthening multilevel governance in national energy and climate policies
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.
