Tools & Capacity building
The overhaul of the energy system requires new ways of thinking and doing. Based on the experience of the network, Energy Cities designs and provides free tools and capacity-building opportunities for a broad range of challenges. The methods compiled and training courses offered aim to facilitate action on the ground. Public servants, elected officials and other locally-active energy transitioners may want to improve their individual or institutional skills to better contribute to a city's or community's energy and climate goals.
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Breaking the poverty cycle
Ingredients for a local strategy against energy poverty
For cities to achieve their decarbonisation, they need greater staff resources
Our recommendations for cities to realise their heating planning and implement decarbonisation projects
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“For cities it can feel a bit of a lonely place to be responsible for all of these changes.”
Britt Jurgensen and Laura Williams from Carbon Co-op
The energy and climate challenge is so big that it requires everybody to be involved. New ways of communicating are needed. What are the best means to shape new narratives and, in the end, to make people want to engage in changing the energy system?
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Lahti Energy Choice
Supporting citizens’ choices for more energy efficient buildings
Using insurance data to improve resilience to climate change
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From Ideas to Action: Supporting municipalities, schools and national governments in the transition to climate neutrality
BEACON Final Report
Examples of successful local climate change mitigation measures can be found all across Europe. Municipalities, local communities, and younger generations are shaping the path towards […]
From Action to Impact : Supporting municipalities, schools and national governments in the transition to climate neutrality
BEACON Final Brochure
Accompanying the BEACON project’s final report From Ideas to Action, which provides an overview of the successes and learnings of the project, this interactive brochure […]
Guide to set up your own city facility
A practical guide on why and how we imagine that the EU City Facility model can be replicated
This document is a first practical guide on why and how we imagine that the EU City Facility model can be replicated at a regional, national or local level.
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EU City Facility
Financial support and services to cities’ sustainable energy projects
The mission of the EUCF is to build a substantial pipeline of sustainable energy investment projects across cities in the EU, by providing targeted financial, […]
Decarb City Pipes 2050
Transition roadmaps to energy efficient, zero-carbon urban heating and cooling
Climate urgency calls on all political levels to act more stringent and faster. This proposal is the first to unite cities across Europe to work […]
