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Preparing Maribor for hotter days ahead through heat action planning

Maribor is Slovenia's second largest city and serves as the economic, transport, cultural, ...

Extreme Heat

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Adaptation

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15.04.2025

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Turku's Bold Vision: Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2029

The Finnish city of Turku is taking bold steps to clean up its energy use. By cutting heating ...

heating and cooling

renewables

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07.04.2025

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Refreshing the city of Toulouse, France

To face increasing heat, Toulouse developed a comprehensive plan that centres around implementing ...

Extreme Heat

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29.03.2025

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Adapting to the impacts of heatwaves in a changing climate in Botkyrka

Botkyrka responded to increased heatwaves by Climatools program project, creating checklists for ...

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29.03.2025

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Tatabánya is addressing the impacts of urban heatwaves and forest fires with alert measures

To reduce heatwave and wildfire impact, Tatabánya uses a proactive heat and UV alert system, along ...

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28.03.2025

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Protecting outdoor agricultural workers from extreme heat in Puglia

In 2021, the Puglia region declared a public health emergency and enacted an ordinance to limit ...

Extreme Heat

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Adaptation

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28.03.2025

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Refreshing Marseille with cooler, greener and more accessible public spaces

Marseille, as a Mediterranean city, is highly vulnerable to rising temperatures and more frequent ...

Extreme Heat

citizen engagement

nature-based solutions

Adaptation

case study

27.03.2025

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Changing attitudes to beat the heat in Limassol

The Mediterranean island of Cyprus marks the EU’s eastern extreme, so far east that it sits ...

Extreme Heat

Adaptation

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27.03.2025

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Guimarães: Adapting a Historic City to Heat Waves

Guimarães, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is leading a nature-based approach to urban cooling. ...

nature-based solutions

Extreme Heat

citizen engagement

Adaptation

case study

26.03.2025

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Kozani’s Green Heat Transition: Phasing out Lignite and Natural Gas towards Net Zero

With the phasing out of lignite-fired power plants, Kozani's district heating system urgently needs ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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14.03.2025

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Bridging local and national effort: the Cyprus Energy Agency’s role in climate action and energy transition

The Cyprus Energy Agency connects local and national efforts to power Cyprus’s energy transition. As ...

multilevel governance

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13.03.2025

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The Covenant of Mayors at the heart of multilevel governance in Croatia

In Croatia, the Covenant of Mayors is at the heart of this collaborative effort, providing a space ...

multilevel governance

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13.03.2025

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Towards Carbon Neutral Heating and Cooling in Maribor

Maribor, Slovenia, is accelerating its shift to carbon-neutral heating, phasing out fossil fuels in ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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18.02.2025

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Mannheim’s Heat Revolution: Climate-Neutral Heating by 2030

Mannheim is embarking on a full heat detox. By 2030, the city aims to fully decarbonise its district ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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17.02.2025

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Upgrading municipal buildings for an effective heat detox in Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni

Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni is undergoing a heat detox to boost energy efficiency and reduce emissions in ...

heating and cooling

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14.02.2025

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Enhancing energy efficiency and decarbonisation in Domokos’ public buildings

Determined to detoxify its heat, Domokos is transforming its educational facilities by integrating ...

heating and cooling

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10.02.2025

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Building trust and powering change: The Hague's path to a just energy transition

The Hague is on track to achieve climate neutrality by 2030, with a strong focus on eliminating ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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07.02.2025

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Heat Detoxification in times of War: Improving resilience in Vinnytsua

Motivated to deliver healthy heat to its 400.00 inhabitants and comply with European decarbonisation ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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03.02.2025

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The greenest city in the making: Vilnius decarbonising its district heating

Discover how the 2025 Green Capital is modernising its district heating system for a successful ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

case study

03.02.2025

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The Vaskiluoto Heat Storage System: Vaasa’s key project for an effective heat detox

Discover how innovation is powering Vaasa’s heat detox and ensuring affordable and fossil free heat ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

03.02.2025

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The Geothermal Capital of the World turning Net-Zero with Silverstone

Going from clean to cleaner, Reykjavik is decreasing its heat-related emissions in an already fully ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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03.02.2025

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Innovation and decarbonisation hand in hand: Porto’s approach to a successful heat detox

To reach climate neutrality, Porto must address its heating system. Through this ambitious project, ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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03.02.2025

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Flanders’ Warmest City: How Mechelen is getting everyone on board to deliver healthy heat

With a comprehensive heat plan and a coalition of local actors acting together to implement it, ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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03.02.2025

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Efficient Thermal Energy Storage in Lappeenranta

From Lappeenranta University to the city’s district heating: discover how Efficient Thermal Energy ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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31.01.2025

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Detoxifying heat with Energy Performance Contracting: the G.R.O.W.S. project in Campi Salentina

Campi Salentina is proving that a city’s size doesn’t matter when it comes to providing healthy heat ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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31.01.2025

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Reaching everyone through an extended and decarbonised district heating network in Besançon

Known as the greenest city in France, Besançon is working to make its heating as green as itself ...

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Mitigation

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31.01.2025

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Achieving water resilience in Barcelona Metropolitan Area: water management in the Sustainability Protocol

Faced with increased droughts, heavier rainfall and more frequent flooding, the Metropolitan Area of ...

Adaptation

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20.01.2025

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Leveraging Open Satellite Data for the management and planning of Milan

The Municipality of Milan fosters innovative policies and programmes to improve citizens’ life ...

Earth Observation

Adaptation

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15.01.2025

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Vienna’s detox for an (even) happier city

In Vienna’s ambitious plan to become fossil-free by 2040, the heat detox is a crucial piece of the ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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10.01.2025

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Dijon's balanced approach to a full heat detox

With a well spread-out district heating network, a good supply of renewable heat sources, and a ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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06.01.2025

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Detoxifying coal-fuelled heat step by step in Prague

Prague is working towards a healthy future, pledging to reduce 45% of its CO2 emissions by 2030, ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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03.01.2025

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Croatia’s Heat Detox: Decoupling from gas in unfriendly market conditions

We talked to Covenant Supporter REGEA, from North-West Croatia, to explore the challenges and ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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17.12.2024

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Warsaw’s plans to heat the city with metro’s waste heat

The Polish capital city seeks to detox its impressively large district heating network using ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

case study

17.12.2024

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Miskolc’s detox for a healthy and inclusive city

Leveraging its large district heating system and its geothermal potential, Miskolc is seeking to ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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16.12.2024

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Budapest’s heat detox against all odds

Despite structural challenges and an unfriendly national context, Budapest is working towards its ...

heating and cooling

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12.12.2024

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Athens Leads Efforts to Mitigate Energy Poverty by Introducing Municipal Tax Exemptions

The City of Athens is taking a groundbreaking step in the fight against energy poverty by becoming ...

Energy Poverty

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11.12.2024

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Cascais Launches the Country's First Municipal Green Fund

Three million euros to support families in investments to improve energy efficiency and thermal ...

energy efficiency

Energy Poverty

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10.12.2024

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District heating to ships in harbour in Gothenburg

Gothenburg is extending its heat detox to the ships in its harbour, decreasing CO2 and NOx emissions ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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06.12.2024

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Smart Cities Marketplace - Celsius Toolbox

Alexandroupolis' geothermal heat detox

This seaside city in Northern Greece is using geothermal energy to supply a district heating system, ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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06.12.2024

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Smart Cities Marketplace - Celsius Toolbox

Tallaght District Heating Scheme: A DHC system fully powered by excess heat!

Find out more about the first of its kind district heating system in Ireland, which will make ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

case study

06.12.2024

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Euroheat & Power

Waste heat in Bergamo's district heating

Bergamo is harnessing the potential of waste heat to reduce its heat-related emissions of CO2 by 14 ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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05.12.2024

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Geothermal district cooling in Limassol

In the south of Cyprus, Limassol is finding innovative ways to cool down its inhabitants in a ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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05.12.2024

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EGEC - Geothermal

Geothermal district heating in Radicondoli

With roughly 1.000 inhabitants, Radicondoli is set to become the first 100% carbon-free municipality ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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05.12.2024

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EGEC - Geothermal

Over 99% of renewable heat in Växjö since 2020

Find out about how "The Greenest City in Europe" has managed to gradually decouple from fossil fuels ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

case study

14.11.2024

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High-efficiency combined biomass-biogas district heating in Kaposvár

Kaposvár is committed to detoxifying its heating for energy security through local sources. Despite ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

case study

13.11.2024

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Oulu's effective heat detox project

Oulu is taking steps towards its heat detox through an innovative project. Find out how the Finnish ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

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24.10.2024

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European Committee of the Regions

Transforming Šaleška Valley’s District Heating for a Sustainable Future

The Šaleška Valley is undergoing a critical transformation of its district heating system to shift ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

case study

17.10.2024

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Tallinn’s way to climate neutrality: embracing district heating

Tallinn has been working for sustainability over the past years, namely as the European Green ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

case study

07.10.2024

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Going beyond expectations: Geneva’s overachieving solar thermal plant

When it comes to Geneva’s heat detox, the highlight is the impressive solar thermal plant, which has ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

case study

04.10.2024

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Leading by example: Guimarães’ approach to decarbonisation

It is Guimarães’ goal to detox the heating and cooling sector in order to save energy, become more ...

heating and cooling

Mitigation

case study

04.10.2024

Mission City, Green Capital

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