Archivo de categorías para "ENERGY CITIES"

Drinking from a firehose

Look out your window and make a mental note of what you see: a road, footpath, parked cars, maybe a park, trees, a rubbish bin, buildings, insects, emissions, roofs, trucks, busses, birds – and then there are the things

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Urban transition-makers in Brest

The metropolitan government of Brest is getting ready to organise a first major event dedicated to the involvement of local players and citizens in the transition at the end of November. How? Read more and find out! This article

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Renovation Wave will have a big impact on cities

The Renovation Wave proposal from the European Commission landed on Oct. 14th and cities, for better or worse, will be most impacted. There are some bold changes in the proposal but there are also two big open questions that

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Grenoble awarded EU Green Capital 2022

Energy Cities’ member Grenoble won the prestigious EU Green Capital award last week! Grenoble impressed the European jury of experts with its pioneering approach to climate management: they are committed to bring forward systemic change and develop innovative participative

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Do the final National Energy and Climate Plans finally acknowledge cities’ key role?

As of August 2020, all EU Member States had finalized their national energy and climate plans (NECPs) under the Governance Regulation, in which they lay out how they plan to contribute to the EU’s energy and climate goals in

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Active democracy

I remember a speech by Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, addressing participants from all over the world at the first Fearless Cities summit in 2017. It was not so much the strong ideas she presented as the form of

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Weaving the energy question into the social fabric

Alejandro Ramon Alvarez The City of Valencia is one of the new members in Energy Cities Board of Directors. Alejandro Ramon Àlvarez, Councillor in charge of the climate emergency and the energy transition for the city, talked to us

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Make your EU funding applications more successful

The European Union provides plenty of opportunities for motivated teams to fund their projects in the field of research and innovation, sustainability, energy, regional development, cooperation and more. Thanks to these projects, cities have the chance to pilot innovative

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Financing opportunities for Sustainable Energy & Climate Action Plans

Innovative Financing Schemes In 2015, just before the COP21, City of Paris issued its very first set of green bonds worth €300 million. The system proved to be successful in raising the interest of investors. Two years later, the

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The European Climate Law: is it enough to get to climate neutrality?

At first glance, the European Climate Law proposed by the Commission maintains the top-down narrative in EU policymaking – meaning that the essential roles are reserved for the EU executive and the Member States. For example, the EU Commission

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