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How does Paris keep it cool?

As heatwaves become more frequent and intense across Europe, cities are under pressure to provide ...

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23.09.2025

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Local Integrated Action Plan in Águeda

The municipality of Águeda developed a Local Integrated Action Plan (PLAI) to address local ...

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17.09.2025

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Athens Hits Refresh: Beating the Heat with Urban Cooling Solutions

Athens is tackling extreme heat by transforming its neighborhoods. From shaded squares and cooling ...

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03.09.2025

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Local Integrated Action Plan in Vantaa

In Vantaa, a strategic programme tackles biodiversity loss, invasive species and climate pressures. ...

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29.08.2025

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Galicia’s regional Covenant: harnessing local climate action to raise regional ambitions

In pursuit of ambitious climate targets, the regional government of Galicia is leveraging its role ...

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04.08.2025

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Rivoli Veronese shows how to deliver local value for fairer renewables

Rivoli Veronese shows fair, local renewables can power communities and economies in a small ...

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04.08.2025

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Reducing impermeability in Sète’s schoolyards to fight urban heat islands

Sète’s Mediterranean climate brings longer, more intense heatwaves. To lower air temperature and ...

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28.07.2025

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Developing Orléans' Tree Heritage

Orléans, a city of over 100 000 inhabitants with 80% of its area artificialised, has worked since ...

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28.07.2025

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The Alpha, an exemplary geothermal installation in Angoulême

A strategic element in the redevelopment of the train station and Houmeau districts, the Alpha Media ...

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28.07.2025

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The new green lung of Metz: La Forêt des Ponts

La Forêt des Ponts is a rehabilitation project transforming a former military wasteland located ...

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28.07.2025

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Lorient faces urban overheating: A map for better city planning

Following the intense heatwaves of summer 2022, Lorient launched a study to identify the areas most ...

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28.07.2025

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Wangari Muta Maathai, the first micro-forest in Bordeaux

In March 2021, the triangular square located between Billaudel, Fieffé, and Françin streets ...

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28.07.2025

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Nantes: Survey on Residents’ Vulnerability for Tailor-Made Solutions to Extreme Heat

A survey of 1,300 Nantes residents explored the impact of the 2022 summer heatwave on health and ...

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28.07.2025

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Grenoble deploys measurement network to map urban heat islands

As part of its Climate Plan, the City of Grenoble launched a study to map the urban heat island ...

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28.07.2025

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An urban highway transformed into a green corridor in Lyon

Once known as an “urban highway,” Garibaldi Street in Lyon has been transformed into a green ...

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28.07.2025

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The Marcel David School: An Island of Freshness in Échirolles

The courtyard of the Marcel David School in Échirolles was redesigned to combat the urban heat ...

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28.07.2025

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Saint-Omer organises the resistance of its schoolyards to thermal stress

Urban heat is no longer just a southern problem. Northern cities are also feeling the heat, and ...

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28.07.2025

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Climate Itineraries: Cornellà's innovative approach for vulnerable communities

Cornellà de Llobregat leads the way with 'Climate Itineraries,' co-designing pathways to ensure ...

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16.07.2025

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Community planting initiatives in Vilnius, the greenest city in the making

People in Vilnius love planting trees and greening their neighbourhoods. Every spring and autumn the ...

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04.07.2025

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Gothenburg’s Journey to Fossil-Free District Heating and Cooling

Gothenburg is turning up the heat on decarbonisation. With a growing population and climate ...

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30.06.2025

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Four pillars to Hamburg’s Green Roof Strategy: financial incentive, dialogue, regulation, and science

In response to climate change, one of Hamburg’s objectives is to become greener, in the city and on ...

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27.06.2025

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On the path to a cleaner heating system in Celje

As Slovenia’s fourth-largest city, Celje is taking bold steps to decarbonise its district heating ...

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27.06.2025

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Refreshing Strasbourg to improve quality of life and protect people

Strasbourg is prioritising action on extreme heat to ensure and foster the wellbeing of Strasbourg’s ...

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26.06.2025

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Powering Bjæverskov Together: A Citizen-Driven Approach to District Heating

Bjæverskov, a small town in Køge Municipality, is advancing local climate action with a new fossil ...

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19.06.2025

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Breathing LIFE into Lisbon through enhanced urban green infrastructure

Projections of increasing temperatures and decreasing average of annual rainfall over this century ...

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16.06.2025

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Valencia’s Climate Shelters Network

Valencia is building a heat-resilient city through a network of climate shelters, low-tech cooling ...

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12.06.2025

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Nature-Based Solutions for Cooling Ghent

Ghent, a city in East Flanders, Belgium, is increasingly exposed to heat stress, rising temperatures ...

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12.06.2025

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Cool Spots in Antwerp

To combat rising urban heat, Antwerp launched a bold “Cool Spots” strategy—combining quick relief ...

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06.06.2025

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Szeged implements Europe’s Largest Geothermal District Heating Renovation

Szeged, Hungary’s third-largest city, is on a mission to cut 40% of its GHG emissions by 2030. At ...

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06.06.2025

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Regional coordination for better SECAP development in Gorenskja, Slovenia

In 2018, all 18 municipalities of Gorenjska adopted a joint Sustainable Energy and Climate Action ...

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02.06.2025

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Keeping Rethymno’s public spaces fresh with bioclimatic design

In the face of extreme heat, Rethymno, Greece, is taking bold steps to protect its residents and ...

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02.06.2025

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Empowering municipalities: Wallonia’s model for multilevel governance to reach EU targets

Wallonia coordinates 196 Belgian municipalities, enhancing their commitment to the Covenant of Mayor ...

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14.05.2025

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Summer temperatures are rising: it’s time to adapt in Lille Metropole

This summer 2024, Lille Metropole (MEL) launched the first experimentations of its time-based ...

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14.05.2025

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European Urban Initiative

Paris Oasis Schoolyard Programme

To address heatwave vulnerabilities, the city of Paris initiated the "OASIS" program, transforming ...

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07.05.2025

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Reggio Emilia’s Climate-Friendly Parks

Reggio Emilia is transforming its green spaces. Through smart urban forestry, the city is turning ...

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30.04.2025

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Heat Protection in Worms: Co-Creation, Advanced Trainings, and Funding Support for a Cooler Future

In Worms, a dynamic Heat Action Plan and co-creation approach bring citizens, social institutions, ...

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30.04.2025

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Creating a climate-resilient city by greening educational spaces in Poznań, Poland

By implementing Nature-based Solutions, Poznań is transforming concrete jungles into vibrant green ...

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28.04.2025

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Green roofs on Vienna’s bus stops: 200 climate-adapted transport facilities and counting

To combat heat stress for passengers, Vienna tested various green roof solutions for bus stops, ...

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28.04.2025

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Várzea Urban Park: An innovative climate adaptation project in the heart of Setúbal City, Portugal

Setúbal's climate is becoming hotter and drier, a trend expected to intensify by the end of the ...

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28.04.2025

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Getafe’s innovative approach for addressing energy poverty and heatwaves

In response to heatwaves, Getafe has worked on urban innovation processes at different scales ...

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17.04.2025

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Preparing Maribor for hotter days ahead through heat action planning

Maribor is Slovenia's second largest city and serves as the economic, transport, cultural, ...

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15.04.2025

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Action for Outdoor Environment Adaptation in Seville

Seville, one of Europe’s hottest cities, is on the frontline of climate adaptation. With rising heat ...

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08.04.2025

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Turku's Bold Vision: Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2029

The Finnish city of Turku is taking bold steps to clean up its energy use. By cutting heating ...

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07.04.2025

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Refreshing the city of Toulouse, France

To face increasing heat, Toulouse developed a comprehensive plan that centres around implementing ...

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29.03.2025

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Adapting to the impacts of heatwaves in a changing climate in Botkyrka

Botkyrka responded to increased heatwaves by Climatools program project, creating checklists for ...

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29.03.2025

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Tatabánya is addressing the impacts of urban heatwaves and forest fires with alert measures

To reduce heatwave and wildfire impact, Tatabánya uses a proactive heat and UV alert system, along ...

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28.03.2025

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Protecting outdoor agricultural workers from extreme heat in Puglia

In 2021, the Puglia region declared a public health emergency and enacted an ordinance to limit ...

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28.03.2025

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Refreshing Marseille with cooler, greener and more accessible public spaces

Marseille, as a Mediterranean city, is highly vulnerable to rising temperatures and more frequent ...

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27.03.2025

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Changing attitudes to beat the heat in Limassol

The Mediterranean island of Cyprus marks the EU’s eastern extreme, so far east that it sits ...

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27.03.2025

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Guimarães: Adapting a historic city to heatwaves

Guimarães, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is leading a nature-based approach to urban cooling. ...

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26.03.2025

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