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People and nature at the heart of resilience

The Adaptation Journey in Besançon showed us how cities can face growing climate risks by reconnecting with greenery and community

Participative governance

Urban planning & Vision

16/04/2025

As climate risks grow, local governments are stepping up. In Besançon, we saw how resilience is stronger when cities rewild their streets and bring people into the planning process.

News

Welcome to Develop Athens SA, Pays Basque urban community and Lizzanello

Energy Cities welcomes three new members and continues to weave connections between European cities

Participative governance

12/03/2025

Energy Cities is proud to welcome new members, and we look forward to meeting at our next annual forum in April in Besançon! Athens – […]

Media

Building resilient cities: how to align competitiveness and sustainability in Europe’s energy transition?

Resilience

Community energy

06/03/2025

News

A 2025 focused on resilience

How we aim to shape EU policy landscape in 2025 for resilient local communities

29/01/2025

Cities, towns and villages are faced with increasing crises every day. Floods, forest fires, heat waves and droughts are multiplying, adding on to ongoing (and […]

Advocacy

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

Lifestyle & Behaviour

07/10/2024

“Emphasises that addressing resource scarcity requires reducing the extraction and use of resources and an absolute decoupling of growth from the use of natural resources.” […]

News

Why sufficiency should be at the heart of the next European strategic agenda

From resilience to competitiveness, here are 5 reasons why sufficiency measures are more needed than ever

Renewables

Lifestyle & Behaviour

03/06/2024

So far, the EU institutions tried to overcome several crisis without seriously considering a critical lever at its disposal: managing Europe’s resource use. Faced with […]

Advocacy

For a more resilient Europe: sufficiency can lead us toward climate neutrality

Together with other 97 organisations, we call for sufficiency policies to be urgently included into the new EU strategic agenda

Lifestyle & Behaviour

26/03/2024

Energy Cities, along with about 100 European organisations from civil society, academia, cities and local authorities, businesses and public service operators, launched a manifesto for […]

News

Do you FEEL post-growth scarcity?

A study visit in Valencia highlighted the importance of unlocking human power to respect planetary boundaries

Cooperation

Urban planning & Vision

29/11/2023

On November 7-8, 35 people from partners and stakeholders of the FEEL project, representing 8 countries, gathered in the Spanish city of Valencia to discuss […]

News