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Freiburg’s climate goal is to reach climate neutrality by 2035. In this context, the city is implementing two main strategies: increasing the available funds and subsidies to approximately 120 million euros by 2028, and promoting renewable energy and refurbishment of the building stock. Freiburg has

Insights from local, national and European initiatives working on filling the skills gap at local level, presented at this year’s European Sustainable Energy Week.

The Harnessing Talent Platform (HTP) is a newly formed knowledge-building and experience-exchange platform, which seeks to support regions in addressing the consequences of the demographic change and in mitigating the challenges associated with the decline of tertiary educated populations across the

Throughout the PSF’s twinning programme, eight municipalities from Spain, Italy, Greece, France and Germany were paired together to offer opportunity to exchange on best practices, lessons learnt, and to evaluate what could be applied in their city.

The Clean Energy Transition sub-programme of LIFE is dedicated to facilitating the transition towards an energy-efficient, renewable energy-based, climate-neutral and resilient economy.

The monthly Green Deal Funding Alert have highlighted three programmes that offer financial support, guidance and project assistance to European cities and regions as well as companies.

Do you want to support your citizens’ energy projects? Do you wish to start your own energy community? Are you looking into financing options for your RES project or information on how to improve the legal framework in your country? A new toolkit is now available to guide you in this process.

(H&C) accounts for about half of Europe’s total energy needs, with 75% still dependent on fossil fuels. Thus, rapid and significant change is needed to reach the EU 2050 goals. Due to the local nature of H&C systems, action has to be taken at the local level, involving a variety of stakeholders.

Discover how the latest improvements of the MyCovenant platform are strengthening reporting and monitoring, simplifying the process and helping local governments to effectively track their progress towards sustainable action.

“We need good politics in times when sustainable energy is no longer alternative energy but mainstream energy”, Julije Domac, Covenant Board Member, Special Advisor of the Croatian President, FEDARENE President.