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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 ...

Extreme Heat

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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. ...

Nature-Based Solutions

Extreme Heat

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26.03.2025

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Kozani’s Green Heat Transition: Phasing out Lignite and Natural Gas towards Net Zero

With the phasing out of lignite-fired power plants, Kozani's district heating system urgently needs ...

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14.03.2025

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Bridging local and national effort: the Cyprus Energy Agency’s role in climate action and energy transition

The Cyprus Energy Agency connects local and national efforts to power Cyprus’s energy transition. As ...

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13.03.2025

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The Covenant of Mayors at the heart of multilevel governance in Croatia

In Croatia, the Covenant of Mayors is at the heart of this collaborative effort, providing a space ...

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13.03.2025

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Towards Carbon Neutral Heating and Cooling in Maribor

Maribor, Slovenia, is accelerating its shift to carbon-neutral heating, phasing out fossil fuels in ...

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18.02.2025

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Enhancing energy efficiency and decarbonisation in Domokos’ public buildings

Determined to detoxify its heat, Domokos is transforming its educational facilities by integrating ...

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10.02.2025

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Building trust and powering change: The Hague's path to a just energy transition

The Hague is on track to achieve climate neutrality by 2030, with a strong focus on eliminating ...

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07.02.2025

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Heat Detoxification in times of War: Improving resilience in Vinnytsua

Motivated to deliver healthy heat to its 400.00 inhabitants and comply with European decarbonisation ...

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03.02.2025

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The greenest city in the making: Vilnius decarbonising its district heating

Discover how the 2025 Green Capital is modernising its district heating system for a successful ...

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03.02.2025

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The Vaskiluoto Heat Storage System: Vaasa’s key project for an effective heat detox

Discover how innovation is powering Vaasa’s heat detox and ensuring affordable and fossil free heat ...

Heating and Cooling

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03.02.2025

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The Geothermal Capital of the World turning Net-Zero with Silverstone

Going from clean to cleaner, Reykjavik is decreasing its heat-related emissions in an already fully ...

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03.02.2025

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Innovation and decarbonisation hand in hand: Porto’s approach to a successful heat detox

To reach climate neutrality, Porto must address its heating system. Through this ambitious project, ...

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03.02.2025

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Flanders’ Warmest City: How Mechelen is getting everyone on board to deliver healthy heat

With a comprehensive heat plan and a coalition of local actors acting together to implement it, ...

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03.02.2025

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Efficient Thermal Energy Storage in Lappeenranta

From Lappeenranta University to the city’s district heating: discover how Efficient Thermal Energy ...

Heating and Cooling

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31.01.2025

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Detoxifying heat with Energy Performance Contracting: the G.R.O.W.S. project in Campi Salentina

Campi Salentina is proving that a city’s size doesn’t matter when it comes to providing healthy heat ...

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31.01.2025

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Reaching everyone through an extended and decarbonised district heating network in Besançon

Known as the greenest city in France, Besançon is working to make its heating as green as itself ...

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31.01.2025

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Achieving water resilience in Barcelona Metropolitan Area: water management in the Sustainability Protocol

Faced with increased droughts, heavier rainfall and more frequent flooding, the Metropolitan Area of ...

Adaptation

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20.01.2025

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Leveraging Open Satellite Data for the management and planning of Milan

The Municipality of Milan fosters innovative policies and programmes to improve citizens’ life ...

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15.01.2025

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Vienna’s detox for an (even) happier city

In Vienna’s ambitious plan to become fossil-free by 2040, the heat detox is a crucial piece of the ...

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10.01.2025

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Dijon's balanced approach to a full heat detox

With a well spread-out district heating network, a good supply of renewable heat sources, and a ...

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06.01.2025

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Detoxifying coal-fuelled heat step by step in Prague

Prague is working towards a healthy future, pledging to reduce 45% of its CO2 emissions by 2030, ...

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03.01.2025

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Warsaw’s plans to heat the city with metro’s waste heat

The Polish capital city seeks to detox its impressively large district heating network using ...

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17.12.2024

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Miskolc’s detox for a healthy and inclusive city

Leveraging its large district heating system and its geothermal potential, Miskolc is seeking to ...

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16.12.2024

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Budapest’s heat detox against all odds

Despite structural challenges and an unfriendly national context, Budapest is working towards its ...

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12.12.2024

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Cascais Launches the Country's First Municipal Green Fund

Three million euros to support families in investments to improve energy efficiency and thermal ...

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10.12.2024

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Tallaght District Heating Scheme: A DHC system fully powered by excess heat!

Find out more about the first of its kind district heating system in Ireland, which will make ...

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06.12.2024

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Over 99% of renewable heat in Växjö since 2020

Find out about how "The Greenest City in Europe" has managed to gradually decouple from fossil fuels ...

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14.11.2024

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High-efficiency combined biomass-biogas district heating in Kaposvár

Kaposvár is committed to detoxifying its heating for energy security through local sources. Despite ...

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13.11.2024

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Oulu's effective heat detox project

Oulu is taking steps towards its heat detox through an innovative project. Find out how the Finnish ...

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24.10.2024

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Transforming Šaleška Valley’s District Heating for a Sustainable Future

The Šaleška Valley is undergoing a critical transformation of its district heating system to shift ...

Heating and Cooling

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17.10.2024

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Tallinn’s way to climate neutrality: embracing district heating

Tallinn has been working for sustainability over the past years, namely as the European Green ...

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07.10.2024

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Going beyond expectations: Geneva’s overachieving solar thermal plant

When it comes to Geneva’s heat detox, the highlight is the impressive solar thermal plant, which has ...

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04.10.2024

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Leading by example: Guimarães’ approach to decarbonisation

It is Guimarães’ goal to detox the heating and cooling sector in order to save energy, become more ...

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04.10.2024

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Leuven’s New District Heating Journey

As part of the 112 Mission Cities, Leuven is aiming at a full-city detox by 2030. Despite district ...

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03.10.2024

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Salaspils’ solar heat detox

By the Daugava river, in Latvia, Salaspils is located in one of the coldest regions of Europe, so ...

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01.10.2024

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Silkeborg: The largest solar thermal plant in the world

The story of a small Danish town on its way to climate neutrality through a powerful solar-infused ...

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27.09.2024

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Valladolid: expanding district heating for a full-city detox

Valladolid, an industrial hub along the European Atlantic Corridor, is addressing the challenges of ...

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24.09.2024

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Heidelberg's District Heating Expansion

As a scientific hub with a large population of dynamic students, Heidelberg is in an ideal situation ...

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Mitigation

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23.09.2024

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A diversified detox mix for an integrated approach in Brest

In Brest, located in the Northwest of France right by the sea, rainfall and cold weather is common ...

Heating and Cooling

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23.09.2024

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Lyon's district heating expansion for more resilient communities

With a clear vision to achieve climate neutrality through the collective engagement of all its ...

Heating and Cooling

Mitigation

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23.09.2024

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Marseille’s sea-side detox

Marseille's strategic position by the Mediterranean Sea comes with key economic opportunities but ...

Heating and Cooling

Mitigation

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23.09.2024

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Planning for a full-city detox in Munich

As a part of the 112 Mission Cities aiming to become climate-neutral by 2030, Munich wants to make ...

Heating and Cooling

Mitigation

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20.09.2024

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Ghent City Heating Vision 2024

The City of Ghent has adopted a fossil-free heating strategy focused on heat pumps and low ...

Heating and Cooling

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20.09.2024

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Pioneering low-temperature district heating solutions

In the city of Lund, a remarkable transformation towards climate neutrality has been unfolding. With ...

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18.09.2024

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Sustainable energy transition initiatives

The city of Pécs has been firmly committed to a climate policy, driven by a clear sense of purpose. ...

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Renewables

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18.09.2024

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Waste heat for district heating

Espoo, Finland's second largest and fastest-growing city, has committed to becoming carbon neutral ...

Heating and Cooling

Mitigation

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18.09.2024

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Citizens' Climate Assembly in Barcelona

The Citizens' Climate Assembly is a deliberative process of 100 people chosen by lottery between the ...

Citizen Engagement

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18.09.2024

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Vantaa is transforming district heating

Vantaa’s district heating network is an efficient system that supplies most of the city’s buildings. ...

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18.09.2024

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