Popular objectives, controversial measures - Increasing the acceptance of ambitious measures in cities
European Green Week Conference Session
Reducing pollution and improving air quality in cities is an objective usually finding widespread support across policy levels and in the population. The question of which measures and actions to take to move towards this objective on the other side are frequently leading to heated debates and even ...
See what the neighbours are doing: communities shaping sustainability
SMARTEES final conference
Community-level projects play a vital role in sustainability transitions. Whether a community is taking on the planning of a heat network, liberating a neighborhood from transit traffic, or a collective investment in home improvement, social dynamics often determine the success or failure of an inno...
Bringing energy sufficiency from local projects to a global driver
spotlight on Grenoble
Across the world, individuals, organisations and governments are working to consume and procure more environmentally-friendly goods. But, do we need to consume all of those goods at all?
The concept of energy sufficiency (sometimes known as ‘energy sobriety’) encourages reducing or alto...
The UrbanA Berlin Arena will bring people together to explore governance arrangements for sustainable and just cities. We will learn and get inspired together with practitioners from Berlin and other corners of Europe, specifically regarding how to organise for more sustainable and just cities, and ...
join ‘inspiration event’ on European prosumerism
On the mornings of February 2-4, the key knowledge needed to support people or communities in producing and consuming their own green energy, will be shared at a cross-European online conference. Throughout the conference days, experts and practitioners are invited to join ‘prosumerism’ ...
Encouraging social innovation in energy transitions via collaborative governance
A fishbowl discussion
People around the world are trying out new social practices, or reviving practices from the past, in the hope that those meet our needs better than existing solutions do. Those new (or revived) practices are social innovations. Social innovations in energy (SIEs) can include energy cooperatives; new...