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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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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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Stockholm, Sweden : Heat recovery from data centres

Stockholm’s initiative to attract data centres to the city and capture their excess heat in the city ...

Energy Efficiency

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18.09.2024

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Making change a reality in the Slovenian city of Celje

Celje is counting on its natural assets and the support of European cohesion funds to become more ...

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17.09.2024

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Adapting to climate change: Barrelling forward in Debrecen

Debrecen is at the forefront of climate adaptation measures through its participation in the ...

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17.09.2024

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Mining for inspiration: Cox facing climate hazards

Cox faces the dual challenge of water shortages and flooding. These climate threats have led the ...

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17.09.2024

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Heat mapping to decarbonise a former industrial hub

Once a polluted industrial landscape, Bilbao is now committed to a carbon-neutral future. To achieve ...

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17.09.2024

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Waste heat for district heating

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

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05.09.2024

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The Brussels Donut: Shifting the economy towards an ecological and fair transition

The Brussels-Capital Region is working on shifting its economy to align it with its climate ...

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18.01.2024

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Embedding sufficiency into long-term climate and energy planning: how Grenoble is using the energy crisis as an opportunity

In response to the energy crisis, Grenoble has implemented a comprehensive sufficiency plan to cut ...

Energy Efficiency

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10.01.2024

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The Urban Water Buffer: Combating the effects of heavy rainfall and drought in The Hague

Due to its location, The Hague is one of the European cities currently suffering a heavier rainfall ...

Nature-Based Solutions

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09.01.2024

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Local Climate Pacts: A youth-inclusive green future for Sunderland

Sunderland has brought city partners together to cooperate in reaching the city’s jointly agreed ...

Citizen Engagement

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12.12.2023

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Reinvesting energy savings for a climate-neutral future in Riga

Riga has developed a programme to reinvest the funds recovered through energy savings into measures ...

Energy Efficiency

Adaptation

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28.09.2023

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Cooperating with the private sector: Joensuu's Climate Business Network

In 2015, Joensuu established the Climate Business Network to engage the private sector in the green ...

City-Business Partnership

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01.09.2023

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Energy Caravan, Freiburg’s path towards future- proof building stock

Through the Energy Caravan, the City of Freiburg is working to climate-proof its building sector. ...

Citizen Engagement

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24.07.2023

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Collaborative Energy Community: Marseille' plan for zero-euro electricity bills

Marseille is fostering a transformative energy community through citizen-led initiatives, ...

Citizen Engagement

Renewables

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11.07.2023

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Toulouse’s climate heroes, ensuring energy efficient homes – I-Heros

Toulouse has opened a one-stop-shop for energy efficient home renovations that gives locals access ...

Building Renovation

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04.02.2023

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RenoBooster, triggering a building renovation wave in Vienna

RenoBooster is an EU Horizon 2020 funded project developed in Vienna that aims to increase the ...

Building Renovation

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01.09.2022

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