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“We do not know”

How difficult it is to write an editorial in such a troubled period, in a deeply divided Europe. We are continuously bombarded with information and, in this context, it is really hard not to get caught up in a

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Two Swedish cities explore collective self-consumption and new electricity market models

Tamarinden, the new smart neighbourhood of Örebro The Swedish city of Örebro is developping a new residential neighbourhood – Tamarinden-, that will benefit from innovative solutions enabling the buildings and their tenants to reduce, produce, store and share energy

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EU Climate Law should safeguard local action and reform economic governance

In these very uncertain times, it is now a broad consensus that Europe urgently needs new economic and social foundations based on local resilience, solidarity and empowerment. Unveiled last March, the EU Commission’s proposed Climate Law aims to enshrine

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Condominiums require recognition in the Renovation Wave

The European Green Deal aspires to ‘Starting a renovation wave’ across the continent, doubling the current rates of renovation of public and private buildings. However, to accelerate deep retrofit of domestic dwellings, the role of condominiums or co-owned properties must be considered. Across the

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The European City Facility launch its first call for proposals

The European City Facility (EUCF) will launch its first call for proposals on 25 May 2020. All municipalities (local authorities) and their groupings from the EU-27 and UK are encouraged to apply to get support in developing an investment

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How to roadmap the transition to climate-neutral cities?

Over the past months, the research institute DRIFT (our partner in the project TOMORROW) worked on methodological guidelines to support cities in  developing a transition roadmap for climate neutrality by 2050. We refer to this as the “transition roadmapping

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Don’t be fooled: this is not a joke.

…derailed by a pandemic, the severity of which is only matched by its suddenness, and which makes us think rather than laugh.A pandemic that also brings us back to our condition as human beings, susceptible to disease – without

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How did Energy Cities energise policy, people and places?

Our mantra: #ShowShareShake Let us introduce you to the Energy Cities Impact Report for 2019! It was a great year for our organisation: our members stepped to the fore to « Show Share and Shake » ideas, projects and plans about

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Condominium retrofits are a matter of a long breath

For a long time, and until now, they have been considered the black sheep: multi-flat buildings. As working with condominiums is very complicated for a number of reasons, it is not high priority in a lot of Member States. The

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There isn’t one renovation wave

Policies to promote home renovation have often failed in the past because they have taken the obvious, and incorrect, starting point – the home. Instead, we need to recognize that homes are part of a local ecosystem of intermixed

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