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.
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.
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.
As the 15-year anniversary of the Covenant of Mayors - Europe is approaching, we reflect on the accomplishments of cities in the past years and anticipate their pivotal role in shaping a new era of climate action ahead.
Une into our fifth podcast episode of our series on Adaptation to discover how the Slovenian city of Celje is counting on its natural assets and the support of European cohesion funds to become more resilient in the face of increasing heatwaves and floods.
Vantaa’s district heating network is an efficient system that supplies most of the city’s buildings. In the past years, it's moved from fossil fuels to more sustainable strategies, and it's now aiming to go carbon-negative and circular.