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Position paper
Biodiversity & NBS Green Digital Transformation Resilience Finance
Published: 2025

High-Integrity Nature - Markets for Cities: Unlocking Private Sector Finance for Urban Nature and a Healthy, Resilient, Competitive Europe

This position paper shows how voluntary nature markets can help close the financing gap for urban nature-based solutions. It describes how cities can mobilise private investment in addition to direct emission reductions through transparent, socially equitable and biodiversity-enhancing markets. The aim is to make cities more resilient, healthier and more liveable, while supporting Europe's climate and biodiversity goals.
Case study
Finance
Published: 2020

Devolution to cities: A case study of KL - Local Government Denmark

Many countries are debating the effectiveness of devolving governing responsibilities to cities. There is increasing recognition that many citizen-facing responsibilities, such as kindergartens, schools, elderly care, unemployment benefits, skills and job training, refugee shelter, and the integration of immigrants take place in cities under the management of municipalities. However, the fiscal capacity of cities to provide these services varies widely in different countries. For instance, conti...
Tool / Methodology
Built Environment & Culture Sustainable Energy Systems Finance Socio-Cultural Transformations
Published: 2019

KeepWarm Learning Centre

The KeepWarm Learning Centre is pooling resources and solutions on district heating in Europe and beyond. This includes a large selection of training materials developed or collected by project partners, but also reports, materials with data-sheets, analysis, policy recommendations, as well as business models, funding sources, project development and implementation steps characteristic for each of the technological solutions.
Press release
Climate Change Mitigation Biodiversity & NBS Built Environment & Culture Governance Innovation Green Digital Transformation Resilience Procurement Sustainable Energy Systems Performance Measurement Sustainable Food Systems Sustainable Mobility Finance Membership Socio-Cultural Transformations
Published: 2019

European sustainability award launched at Change the Change conference

Win 10,000 EUR and be recognised as a European leader of sustainable urban transformation with the 2019 Transformative Action Award
Press release
Built Environment & Culture Sustainable Mobility Procurement Circular Economy Governance Innovation Green Digital Transformation Finance Membership Socio-Cultural Transformations
Published: 2018

Barcelona, Rotterdam and Flanders Scoop Awards at Major European Sustainability Event

The cities of Barcelona and Rotterdam, and the Government of Flanders, have scooped the 2018 Procura+ Awards at this year’s EcoProcura conference in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Press release
Built Environment & Culture Procurement Governance Innovation Finance Socio-Cultural Transformations
Published: 2018

“Win-Win for European Economy” – Strategic Innovation Network Launched

Procure2Innovate, a strategic innovation procurement initiative funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, was officially launched today in Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Case study
Finance
Published: 2018

Financing the inclusive city: A case study of the Danish model of affordable and social housing

Urban populations are growing, putting pressures on housing markets and prices. In the process, poorer segments of the urban population are pushed out of the city cores towards the peripheries, resulting in increased housing segregation. In an era of increasing economic inequality and decreasing economic mobility, housing segregation can make bad conditions worse.
Municipalities must single-handedly work out how to deliver and finance affordable and social housing in a city context that is ofte...
Case study
Sustainable Mobility Finance
Published: 2018

Partnerships for improved sustainability: A case study method applied to partnerships in the transport industry

National governments are the signatories to international sustainability agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), New Urban Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement. However, they cannot single-handedly realise these goals; this can only be achieved through cooperation among all relevant actors, including local and regional governments, businesses and civil society.
Local governments control less than 20% of their carbon emission-producing assets. If cities want to achieve the...
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