In this 5th installment of the Heat Roadmap Europe (HRE) webinar series,  ICLEI Europe’s Sustainable Resources, Climate and Resilience officer, George Stiff, along with Smart City expert David Drysdale (Aalborg University) will discuss how HRE results and data can facilitate strategic city and regional energy planning, as well as how synergies in policy-processes regarding heating and cooling can be explored.

ICLEI Member and Heat Roadmap Europe City and Regions Interest Group Member Alba Iulia (Romania) will complement the discussion with insights from their own city-level practice, reflecting on issues of applicability and implementation on the ground.

Staff and policy-makers from cities and regions interested in these topics are particularly encouraged to join, and will be given an opportunity to interact with the speakers. Posing questions about how HRE can enable their own policy-processes. Follow-up questions on these issues are also welcome during and after the webinar, and should be directed to ICLEI Europe.

The HRE project maps and models the heating and energy systems of the 14 largest users of heat in the EU, with the aim to empower policy-makers and investors to develop low-carbon policies and invest in new markets, ultimately decarbonising the heating and cooling sector.

To do this, HRE provides local and regional governments with the latest scientific, technologically-neutral findings, to help achieve an effective and economically-feasible decarbonisation and feed into cities’ Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs) and Smart City strategies.

The webinars are taking place every two weeks at 14:00-15:00 (CET). Interested participants can register here for free.

For more information about the Heat Roadmap Europe project and its resources for cities, click here.