Vilnius, Green Capital 2025, with Viladecans and Treviso, Green Leaf winners, lead Europe in local climate action, shaping a sustainable, just future for their citizens.

Discover inspiring examples and learning opportunities in our new publication on Sustainable Mobility, compiling resources for policies looking to decarbonise urban mobility, from public transport to soft mobility, logistics and electric solutions.

In the framework of the Covenant of Mayors’ twinning programme, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, and Hengelo, Netherlands, exchanged experiences on shaping their cities’ path to sustainability, finding inspiration in one another’s actions.

Stockholm’s initiative to attract data centres to the city and capture their excess heat in the city’s district heating network has allowed it to boost its IT industry while reducing the system’s emissions by 50g of CO2 per kilowatt hour.

From our series “Building on the Sprint”: Riga has developed a programme to reinvest the budget recovered thanks to energy savings into long-term measures to become climate neutral by 2030.

National adaptation workshops, organised as part of the Covenant’s Policy Support Facility (PSF), put local level climate change adaptation at the forefront of the conversation with national and regional governments.