Once a polluted industrial landscape, Bilbao is now committed to a carbon-neutral future. To achieve this conversion, it has developed a new energy strategy focused on decarbonising heating.

Do you want to accelerate your climate transition? Don't miss your change to learn more from Mission cities, through the new NetZeroCities Twinning Learning Programme. Become a twin city to learn from pilot projects of the EU Cities Mission!

In response to the energy crisis, Grenoble has implemented a comprehensive sufficiency plan to cut energy consumption. Building on its longstanding commitment to consumption reduction, the city has used the crisis as an opportunity to expand sufficiency into a key element of its long-term strategy.

In Europe, we all consume large amounts of energy every day. The European Commission would like to hear your ideas for improving energy efficiency. Whether at home, at work or in the workplace, improving energy efficiency can take many forms.

Mayors unite in the European Parliament to showcase their support for the European Green Deal and highlight their crucial role in mobilising communities to act on climate. Their message to Europe: support local action to make the Green Deal tangible to all.

How do Covenant Supporters empower cities and towns in tackling climate change? Dive into our 2023 Report to find out more about their work enhancing energy and climate action locally, while strengthening multilevel governance.

The EU Mission Label was awarded to 23 cities part of the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, one of the EU Missions under Horizon Europe!

A delegation of 23 Apulian mayors meet with European decision-makers to exchange on the ongoing collaboration between Europe and the Italian region and how to strengthen it to better empower local energy and climate action.

The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) newly published assessment alarms that climate risks have already reached critical levels and could become catastrophic for Europe without urgent and decisive policies and action. 

Our two-year Policy Support Facility, designed to help local governments go from planning to implementation of climate adaptation actions, has given us an array of examples of what cities can do to adapt to the changing climate.