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Powering Malilla: how Valencia supports energy communities

In Valencia, the city is helping energy communities thrive as a way to accelerate citizen-owned ...

Energy Communities

Citizen Engagement

Mitigation

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07.08.2026

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Mechelen's Otterbeek neighbourhood embraces affordable renewable energy

In Mechelen, a partnership between the city, a local energy cooperative, and a social housing ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

Energy Poverty

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07.08.2026

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Powering municipal electricity and lighting with 100% renewables in Aradippou

Aradippou is one good example of how a municipality can achieve energy independence for street and ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

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27.07.2026

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Turning Drinking Water into Homegrown Energy: The De Voerman Citizen Heat Network

Anzegem’s De Voerman project transforms a former industrial site into a gas-free neighbourhood ...

Energy Communities

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Mitigation

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17.07.2026

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Solar Mapping and Bio-Roofs: Braga’s Digital Path to Decentralised Renewable Energy

Braga developed an interactive solar mapping platform combining photovoltaic potential assessment ...

Energy Efficiency

Digital Solutions

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Mitigation

Energy Poverty

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17.07.2026

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Bridging fragmentation: Czechia’s coordinated approach to local climate planning

In Czechia, the Ministry of the Environment supports municipalities to move from climate planning to ...

Multilevel Governance

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29.06.2026

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Mobilising private capital to empower citizens in Bristol

Bristol City Council has set an example of how local governments can tap into private finance to ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

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17.06.2026

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The small French town Malaunay growing an energy sharing culture

What if homegrown energy did not start with a million-euro smart city strategy, but with a ...

Energy Communities

Building Renovation

Mitigation

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22.05.2026

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Powering Change: Liberec’s Path to Community Energy

Sustainable energy communities are emerging in Europe as a way to deliver these benefits. Among the ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

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18.05.2026

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Gran Canaria: energy communities as key for resilient energy systems in outermost regions

Urban energy community in Siete Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain), established as a non-profit ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

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06.05.2026

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Getafe Potencia, an energy community centered around energy poverty and housing renovation

Getafe's Potencia energy community is promoting social inclusion and just energy transition. With ...

Energy Communities

Building Renovation

Mitigation

Energy Poverty

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05.05.2026

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A Support Office to create municipal Energy Communities in Barcelona Province

Barcelona Province set up an Office for the Promotion of Energy Communities (OICE) to provide ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

Energy Poverty

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04.05.2026

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Empowering citizens to produce and consume their own energy in Križevci

In Križevci, citizens are playing an active role in shaping their city’s energy future. Through KLIK ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

Energy Poverty

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28.04.2026

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Dora 5 Laghi energy community: bringing light where sunshine is limited

The Dora 5 Laghi Renewable Energy Community proves that when small municipalities come together, ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

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28.04.2026

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Badajoz Provincial Council supporting rural energy communities

Discover how the establishment at provincial level of a technical office to support, advise and ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

Energy Poverty

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28.04.2026

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Mechelen leveraging the citizen energy community initiative Klimaan

Klimaan, a citizen-led climate organisation, works in close collaboration with the city of Mechelen. ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

Energy Poverty

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28.04.2026

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Heilbronn partnering with the energy cooperative EnerGeno for the local green transition

Heilbronn has made the energy cooperative EnerGeno a partner for its energy and climate strategy. ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

Energy Poverty

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28.04.2026

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València investment on citizen energy to keep energy transition benefits in-house

Valencia constant work through one-stop-shops, community engagement and tailored support made ...

Energy Communities

Mitigation

Energy Poverty

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28.04.2026

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Supporting housing companies decarbonise their apartment buildings in Helsinki

To achieve climate neutrality by 2030, Helsinki, capital of Finland, is seeking to reduce the energy ...

City-Business Partnership

Building Renovation

Mitigation

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20.04.2026

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Driving Climate Action in Bonn Through Strategic City-Business Collaboration

The City of Bonn is mobilising its local economy to achieve climate neutrality in line with its ...

City-Business Partnership

Adaptation

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15.04.2026

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Sustainable renovation of large Soviet-era housing blocks in Bucharest, District 6

The 6th District of Bucharest is investing in its future. By using an integrated approach combining ...

Building Renovation

Mitigation

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13.04.2026

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European Urban Initiative

Vaasa's innovation focus to promote societal wellbeing

This year’s European Green Leaf city, Vaasa in north-western Finland, is showing how a strong ...

Heating and Cooling

Renewables

Nature-Based Solutions

Adaptation

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01.04.2026

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Tampere’s strong approach on sustainable mobility

Tampere is transforming how its residents move. With transport accounting for 36% of city emissions, ...

Mobility

Mitigation

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25.03.2026

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The EU Covenant of Mayors at the heart of multilevel governance in Italy

In Italy, the EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (the Covenant) has evolved to be the ...

Multilevel Governance

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05.03.2026

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Green bonds in Malmö

Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest and fastest-growing city, is advancing towards climate neutrality with ...

City-Business Partnership

Mitigation

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03.03.2026

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Udalsarea 2030: how Euskadi promotes local climate action through multilevel governance

Udalsarea 2030 is the Basque Network of Sustainable Municipalities, coordinating climate and energy ...

Multilevel Governance

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24.02.2026

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Kortrijk’s Fossil-Free Future

Committed through the EU Covenant of Mayors and the Kortrijk Green Deal, the city is deploying a ...

Heating and Cooling

Mitigation

06.02.2026

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Managing the Heat in Tartu, Estonia: A Fresh Chapter for District Energy

A modern district heating and cooling system is just like a choir: it needs different elements, just ...

Heating and Cooling

Mitigation

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29.01.2026

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Valencia Province empowers municipal action to accelerate solar deployment and promote change locally

By acting as an active and enabling Covenant of Mayors Coordinator, Valencia Province demonstrates ...

Multilevel Governance

Adaptation

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19.01.2026

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A Tree Registry as a key driver of climate adaptation in Hamburg

Hamburg uses a public digital tree registry to strengthen climate adaptation and urban resilience. ...

Nature-Based Solutions

Citizen Engagement

Extreme Heat

Adaptation

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08.01.2026

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Data-Driven Resilience: Using Sensor Networks and Thermal Imaging to Monitor Heat-Related Data in Dortmund

Located in the northwest of Germany, the city of Dortmund has not yet suffered from extreme ...

Extreme Heat

Digital Solutions

Adaptation

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23.12.2025

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Integrating adaptation in the design of the metro of Copenhagen

The Copenhagen metro system integrates climate change adaptation in its line design, implementing ...

Mobility

Adaptation

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14.11.2025

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Climate ADAPT

How does Paris keep it cool?

As heatwaves become more frequent and intense across Europe, cities are under pressure to provide ...

Heating and Cooling

Mitigation

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23.09.2025

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Euroheat & Power

Local Integrated Action Plan in Águeda

The municipality of Águeda developed a Local Integrated Action Plan (PLAI) to address local ...

Citizen Engagement

Adaptation

Mitigation

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17.09.2025

Green Leaf

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Green City Accord

A whole-society approach: How Cork City engaged businesses and community groups through Local Green Deals

Cork, in collaboration with its Chamber of Commerce, signed twelve Local Green Deals (LGDs) with a ...

City-Business Partnership

Citizen Engagement

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15.09.2025

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Athens Hits Refresh: Beating the Heat with Urban Cooling Solutions

Athens is tackling extreme heat by transforming its neighborhoods. From shaded squares and cooling ...

Extreme Heat

Adaptation

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03.09.2025

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Local Integrated Action Plan in Vantaa

In Vantaa, a strategic programme tackles biodiversity loss, invasive species and climate pressures. ...

Citizen Engagement

Nature-Based Solutions

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29.08.2025

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Green City Accord

Galicia’s regional Covenant: harnessing local climate action to raise regional ambitions

In pursuit of ambitious climate targets, the regional government of Galicia is leveraging its role ...

Multilevel Governance

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04.08.2025

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Rivoli Veronese shows how to deliver local value for fairer renewables

Rivoli Veronese shows fair, local renewables can power communities and economies in a small ...

Renewables

Energy Communities

Energy Efficiency

Mitigation

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04.08.2025

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Reducing impermeability in Sète’s schoolyards to fight urban heat islands

Sète’s Mediterranean climate brings longer, more intense heatwaves. To lower air temperature and ...

Extreme Heat

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Adaptation

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28.07.2025

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Developing Orléans' Tree Heritage

Orléans, a city of over 100 000 inhabitants with 80% of its area artificialised, has worked since ...

Extreme Heat

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Adaptation

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28.07.2025

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The Alpha, an exemplary geothermal installation in Angoulême

A strategic element in the redevelopment of the train station and Houmeau districts, the Alpha Media ...

Extreme Heat

Heating and Cooling

Adaptation

Mitigation

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28.07.2025

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The new green lung of Metz: La Forêt des Ponts

La Forêt des Ponts is a rehabilitation project transforming a former military wasteland located ...

Extreme Heat

Nature-Based Solutions

Adaptation

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28.07.2025

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Lorient faces urban overheating: A map for better city planning

Following the intense heatwaves of summer 2022, Lorient launched a study to identify the areas most ...

Extreme Heat

Adaptation

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28.07.2025

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Wangari Muta Maathai, the first micro-forest in Bordeaux

In March 2021, the triangular square located between Billaudel, Fieffé, and Françin streets ...

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Adaptation

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28.07.2025

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Nantes: Survey on Residents’ Vulnerability for Tailor-Made Solutions to Extreme Heat

A survey of 1,300 Nantes residents explored the impact of the 2022 summer heatwave on health and ...

Extreme Heat

Citizen Engagement

Adaptation

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28.07.2025

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Grenoble deploys measurement network to map urban heat islands

As part of its Climate Plan, the City of Grenoble launched a study to map the urban heat island ...

Extreme Heat

Adaptation

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28.07.2025

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An urban highway transformed into a green corridor in Lyon

Once known as an “urban highway,” Garibaldi Street in Lyon has been transformed into a green ...

Extreme Heat

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28.07.2025

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The Marcel David School: An Island of Freshness in Échirolles

The courtyard of the Marcel David School in Échirolles was redesigned to combat the urban heat ...

Extreme Heat

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Adaptation

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28.07.2025

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Saint-Omer organises the resistance of its schoolyards to thermal stress

Urban heat is no longer just a southern problem. Northern cities are also feeling the heat, and ...

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Adaptation

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28.07.2025

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