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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

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 […]
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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

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

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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Housing Rights: A goal still out of reach

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

From Spain to the Netherlands; from Italy to Ireland and Portugal, people are taking to the streets to make their anger heard: housing prices are […]
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How to finance the energy transition? Albertville has a solution!

How to finance the energy transition? Albertville has a solution!

Allocating savings achieved through energy sufficiency in your budget to fund similar initiatives.

11/10/2024

How do you invest without putting a strain on an increasingly tight budget? There's a flexible and appropriate accounting tool that few still use, and which can help them solve this headache: intracting, or energy-saving funds.
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Reduce Resource Use For A Fairer, Cleaner, And More Resilient Europe

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

“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.” […]
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How the EU can help cities reduce ads

How the EU can help cities reduce ads

European cities are taking action to regulate citizens’ exposure to ads, but they need clear and harmonised regulations to support their efforts

05/09/2024

Can we regulate advertising at the EU level? What is the current state of affairs? As more and more European cities feel the need to […]
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Ads-free streets: let’s give public space back to citizens

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

If we have regulations for tobacco and alcohol ads, why don’t we have one to limit the promotion of fossil fuel products and services? Why […]
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We are energy addicts who need rehab

We are energy addicts who need rehab

During “Resource-wise cities: Rethinking our need”, Heidelberg, Lyon, Riga, and Vitoria-Gasteiz explored the necessity to consume less and shared inspiring sufficiency best practices

22/07/2024

Planet Earth is begging us to respect its boundaries. Some cities are already running out of water, even in wintertime. Energy prices have soared. Urban […]
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Why sufficiency should be at the heart of the next European strategic agenda

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

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 […]

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Frugal cities through Energy Efficiency and Low-tech communities
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How can you do more with less? European public authorities have to meet increasing demands, but with less money. Thinking bigger, the problem is also […]