Projects

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Adaptation AGORA

A Gathering place to cO-design and co-cReate Adaptation

AGORA aims to enhance collective resilience against climate change by establishing community-based adaptation practices in various social, economic and political contexts.

European Heritage Hub

The European Heritage Hub will position cultural heritage as a driving force for Europe's climate, social and digital transformations.

CapaCITIES

Advancing national support for climate-neutral cities

A support action for national and regional authorities to advance their governance structures and strengthen dedicated support for cities to achieve the climate-neutral Cities Mission. The project is funded under the EU Missions programme of Horizon Europe.
CapaCITIES coordinates actions across cli...

ACCTING

AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal

The ACCTING project produces knowledge and innovations to advance behavioural change for an inclusive and equal European Green Deal.

P2GreeN

P2GreeN will develop, test and adapt the use of human sanitary waste to produce safe, bio-based fertilizers for agriculture. The objective is to foster nutrient recovery of phosphorous and nitrogen between urban and rural areas.

Sun4All

Energy communities for a fair energy transition in Europe

Through the Sun4All project approach, four European ‘pilot cities’ aim at facilitating access to renewable energy generation (and its economic and environmental benefits) for vulnerable households, which suffer from energy poverty and which otherwise would not have the capacity of invest...

NetZeroCities

NetZeroCities is a four-year project designed to help cities overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they face in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.

SESA

Smart Energy Solutions for Africa

SESA is a collaborative project between the European Union and nine African countries that aims at providing energy access technologies and business models that are easily replicable and generate local opportunities for economic development and social cohesion in Africa, also using European know-how...

CINTRAN

Carbon Intensive Regions in Transition - Unravelling the Challenges of Structural Change

The CINTRAN project studies the complex patterns and dynamics of structural change in those carbon-intensive regions across Europe.

POWERPOOR

Empowering Energy Poor Citizens through Joint Energy Initiatives

Energy poverty represents a serious challenge today. As a result, supporting programmes and alternative financial initiatives have emerged as a viable means to mitigate its effects on energy-poor citizens.
The EU-funded POWERPOOR project will develop support programmes/schemes for energy-poor citiz...

Financing Greener Cities

"Financing Greener Cities" was a capacity-building event, which focused on "Strengthening the capacity of local authorities and practitioners for making informed decisions on financing nature-based solutions."

CLEVER Cities

CLEVER Cities

Hamburg, London and Milan will co-create locally tailored nature-based solutions for urban regeneration as part of the European-funded CLEVER Cities project.

SMR - Smart Mature Resilience

Smart Mature Resilience

The Smart Mature Resilience project responds to the need for enhanced resilience in European cities.

GPP 2020

GPP 2020 - Mainstreaming low-carbon procurement

GPP 2020 aimed to mainstream low-carbon procurement across Europe in support of the EU’s goals to achieve a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 20% increase in the share of renewable energy and a 20% increase in energy efficiency by 2020.

To this end, GPP 2020 implemented more than 100...

RAMSES

RAMSES - Science for Cities in Transition

RAMSES was a European research project which aimed to deliver much needed quantified evidence of the impacts of climate change and the costs and benefits of a wide range of adaptation measures, focusing on cities.

Realising DReAMS

Realising Development of Resources and access to Municipal Services

Both environmental degradation and poverty alleviation are urgent global challenges that are too often treated separately. With pressing development needs in Least Developed Countries, and with a growing population, approaches to such global challenges require rethinking. But when new approaches are...

Regions for Sustainable Change (RSC) partnership

Regions for Sustainable Change (RSC) partnership – focus on Burgenland

As part of the 3-year Regions for Sustainable Change (RSC) partnership running from late 2008 – co-funded by the INTERREG IVC Programme) - ICLEI Europe has engaged in early 2010, focussing on developments in Burgenland (Austria). ICLEI Europe addressed the analysis of Burgenland carbon emissions a...

Energy Efficiency in Chisinau and Sevastopol

Increasing energy efficiency of Chisinau and Sevastopol municipalities based on existing positive experiences

Urban development in Moldova and Ukraine traditionally did not deal with issues of energy efficiency (EE) since Soviet times, when energy security was not endangered and energy resources were extremely cheap. Unfortunately, since independence and with prices worldwide increasing for energy resources...

LAKs

Local Accountability for Kyoto goals (LAKs)

The LAKs project demonstrated the potential of cities in using existing opportunities and synergies to actively contribute to the achievement of the Kyoto Protocol goals, and support the European Union targets set in the Climate and Energy package of 2008. It focused on two issues which are the keys...

LG Action

Networking action to involve Local Governments in the EU and international energy and climate debate

LG Action was a networking action to involve Local Governments (LGs) in the EU and international energy and climate debate. This project was co-financed by the Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Programme, and dealt with municiplaities and their associations in 30 countries.

The aim was to mobilise...

EE Regionen

RE-Regions: Socio-Ecology of Self-Sufficiency

With five building blocks managed by different project partners, the German EE-Regionen (RE-Regions) project explores regional self-sufficiency through renewable energy.

Municipalities and regions have the capacity to create the basic conditions necessary for overcoming implementation barriers,...

CARE-North

Carbon responsible transport strategies for the North Sea Area

The aim of CARE-North was to develop a comprehensive, strategic and practical approach to urban and regional transport/accessibility in the North Sea Region in the context of climate change and declining oil supplies.

CHAMP

Local Climate Change Response

CHAMP's aim was to train and support local and subregional authorities in implementing an integrated management system for climate change mitigation and adaptation and to promote the method and the model Europe-wide.

It was a follow-up project of the Managing Urban Europe-25 project that ended i...

SMART SPP

Innovation through Sustainable Procurement

SMART SPP – innovation through sustainable procurement promoted the introduction of new, innovative low carbon emission technologies and integrated solutions onto the European market by the pre-procurement phase of public tenders. Read about the guidance, tools and case studies produced here.

European Climate Conference 2008

Climate Protection and Renewable Energy: Medium and Small Communities Facing the Challenge

The European Climate Conference in April 2008 in Rovigo, Italy, built on the results of the conference ‘A future with Zero CO2 Emissions’ held in Stockholm in 2006. Rovigo 2008 focused on practical climate protection planning and actions in European communities, in particular those start...

MAKE-IT-BE

Decision Making and Implementation Tools for Delivery of Local & Regional Bio-Energy Chains

The MAKE-IT-BE project dealt with bio-energy. Its objective was to increase the bioenergy share in regional energy portfolios and enhance communication between relevant stakeholders.

Important actors in this field include rural bio-business, land and forest owners, waste companies, local governm...

LG climate mobilization post-2012

Local Governments’ mobilization and backing for the development and implementation of a global and comprehensive post-2012 climate change agreement

The project "Local Governments’ mobilization and backing for the development and implementation of a global and comprehensive post-2012 climate change agreement” (Europe Aid) is co-funded by he European Commission and the Norwegian government.

This project has seven emerging economy countries...

Nottingham Conference 2005

Second National Councils' Climate Conference

A one day conference on climate change held in Nottingham, UK. It will see the launch of of a revised Nottingham Declaration with a much improved support package.

"A Future with Zero CO2 Emissions" Conference 2006

15 - 17 May 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden - European conference for local governments on climate protection

The conference aimed to intensify political commitment and present practical
strategies that have been effective, encouraging replication in the region and throughout the world. Attended by local stakeholders, the business sector and youth were highlighted as groups essential for involvement in v...

European CCP Campaign

European Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign

The European Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign forms part of a worldwide movement started in 1993. It addresses climate change mitigation (minimizing the human impact on global warming by reducing the release of harmful emissions) and adapting to climate change at the local level. The CCP...