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Housing rights: Verona’s challenges and solutions

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

Tourism, lack of funds and regulation, high housing demand. This is the mix that fuels the housing crisis in Verona, one of Italy’s most popular […]
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Training future urban innovators

Training future urban innovators

From designing a roadmap to creating entrepreneurial ecosystems, a series of new, free courses will help you regenerate the historic urban area of your city

30/01/2025

Are you interested in breathing new life into historic urban areas that are too often abandoned and neglected? New free courses are now available on […]
Interviews
City interventions for better health and against energy poverty

City interventions for better health and against energy poverty

Interview with Victoria Pellicer and Agnes Losonci (Valencia and Obuda-Bekasmegyer)

13/01/2025

This show is about how local governments can provide answers and concrete help, especially to those that are already in fragile or complicated situations. How can they be supportive in urgency situations while creating long-term conditions that bring wellbeing?
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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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Here’s how energy communities sounded in 2024

Here’s how energy communities sounded in 2024

Podcast episodes you may have missed

16/12/2024

This is not a “best of the year” article. But with all of us being very busy non-stop, it is possible that you may have […]
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How to promote regeneration of historic urban areas?

How to promote regeneration of historic urban areas?

A new, free online course to start a transformative change in your city

09/12/2024

Vibrant historic urban areas are essential for a city to thrive, but many cities are confronted with problems linked to the abandonment and neglect of […]
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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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Roast (don’t rust) your skills on community energy!

Roast (don’t rust) your skills on community energy!

Sign up to the free Community Energy Espresso Training

01/03/2024

Civil servants, prepare yourselves and your local authority to become community energy supporters! Develop your skills around 6 shots prepared by your favorite baristas.

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ASCEND

Accelerating positive, clean energy districts (PCED) for cities’ transition towards climate neutrality and social justice across Europe The project’s overarching goals are to: make cities […]

Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy

Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy

The world's largest movement for local climate and energy action.
Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy

After the adoption, in 2008, of the 2020 EU Climate and Energy Package, the European Commission launched the Covenant of Mayors to endorse and support the efforts deployed by local authorities in the implementation of sustainable energy policies.

SHAPE-EU

SHAPE-EU

European Affordable Housing Consortium: Sustainable Housing for Social Impact
SHAPE-EU

The European Union has embarked on a challenging journey towards carbon neutrality. A promising approach is district renovation. Renovation at district scale reduces CO2 emissions […]

NetZeroCities

NetZeroCities

A journey towards climate-neutral cities in Europe
NetZeroCities

NetZeroCities (NZC) is part of the Horizon 2020 Reseach and Innovation Programme in support of European Union’s Green Deal. It will support Europe in its […]