Urban planning & Vision
The EU has its 2050 strategy for reducing its GHG emissions, which is in line with the Paris climate agreement. Many European cities have alreadystarted working on this crucial long-term exercise. In order to synchronise the future(s) imagined at different government levels, Energy Cities advocates a permanent policy dialogue between decision-makers (including across borders). The network also promotes exemplary city strategies that promise high quality of life and low-carbon footprints.
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Helsinki Energy Challenge outcomes: an artificial island, salt and a HIVE will help decarbonise heating
Key lessons include involving citizens, market forces and combining existing technology with local resources
Learning Municipality Networks
A holistic approach for low-carbon municipalities
Sustainable mobility planning in Brasov
Design thinking and openness at the heart of the process
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“It’s about understanding what’s important to citizens in Dublin.”
Interview with Donna Gartland, CEO of CODEMA
In this episode Donna Gartland explains what changes can be expected in the city and describes how she and her team trigger conversations with citizens around very abstract topics such as district heating using waste heat from data centres.
“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?
Leuven Lessons: High hopes, high risk, and a medieval city as a modern construction site.
Michèle Jacobs, Stakeholders relations Leuven 2030
“I do it for my children and I want to be able to look them in the eye and tell them that I tried and that our family tried.” I am about halfway through the interview with Michèle Jacobs when she says this and it leaves me a bit stunned.
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Using insurance data to improve resilience to climate change
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Climate Change Challenge
A Comic Book by EUKI Project BEACON
With this book the BEACON team seeks to convey the spirit of European collaboration and exchange on climate change to a wider audience of school […]
Vision Workshop Toolbox
for Inspired Collaboration on Climate Neutrality
The ambition of the European Union (EU) to be climate neutral by 2050 is an important element of the EU’s climate policy and contribution to […]
Workbook for urban transition makers
collaborative analytical tools to support sustainability transition in cities
TOMORROW’s Workbook for urban transition makers is a collection of collaborative analytical tools for change makers willing to contribute to sustainability transition in cities. More […]
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EUKI Living Streets
How experiment new forms of city life
Based on the experience gained by Ghent’s Living Streets and the lessons learnt from the EU funded project Living Streets, this new project will support additional cities from Croatia, Greece and Portugal to develop and implement their Living Streets concept.
Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy
Together towards sustainable, climate-resilient and vibrant cities.
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.
MOLOC – Low carbon urban morphology
Designing a new low-carbon urban model
How can we better connect urban planning with energy and climate policies? As an INTERREG Europe project, MOLOC facilitates transnational exchanges around best local policy […]
