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Report
Green Digital Transformation
Published: 2025

AI for Spatial Mapping and Analysis: GeoAI Toolkit for Urban Planners

Urban planning provides a strategic framework for shaping sustainable, inclusive and well-functioning cities. As populations grow and climate, environmental and development pressures intensify, planners increasingly depend on spatial mapping and analysis to understand how land use, infrastructure, ecosystems and social dynamics interact across space and time. However, traditional methods such as manual surveys, conventional GIS tools and static mapping, often struggle to keep pace with the speed...
Case study
Green Digital Transformation
Published: 2025

How Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer Assists Thessaloniki’s Climate-Neutrality Goals

Thessaloniki uses Google’s EIE transportation data to assess mobility trends, track progress toward its 2030 climate targets (80% overall and 45% transport emission reductions), and measure impacts of new infrastructure. EIE insights guide a net-zero pilot in Dioikitirion, scalable to other districts.
Case study
Green Digital Transformation
Published: 2025

Google’s Environmental Insights Explorer supports solar energy communities development in the Metropolitan City of Rome

Rome, supported by Federesco, is boosting solar energy generation. ICLEI Europe aided Federesco in using Google’s EIE to validate rooftop solar data, enabling the Sun4U project to identify optimal areas for renewable energy communities (RECs).
Policy brief
Biodiversity & NBS
Published: 2025

Nature-based Solutions for Urban and Regional Water Resilience: What to do with too much (dirty) water

This policy brief explores the opportunities and challenges in the integration of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) into urban and regional water resilience planning. The brief draws from:

research
policy
good practice from the wider NbS community.

The brief presents recommendations to enhance the integration of NbS. The contents were co-created through a science policy event in February 2025.
Policy brief
Governance Innovation
Published: 2025

Connecting the Disconnected: Bridging the Gap for Digital Engagement

City practitioners currently using digital tools for resident engagement are learning that participatory democracy is valued and that technology enables more equal access to it. When thoughtfully implemented, digital tools can help municipalities bridge the digital divide, engage vulnerable populations, and foster inclusive civic participation. To access and engage vulnerable population groups, the cities contributing to this paper highlight the importance of combining digital innovation with tr...
Handbook / Guide
Sustainable Energy Systems
Published: 2025

Incentives for citizens' participation in renewable energy projects

The info pack provides a comprehensive overview of a range of monetary and non-monetary incentives with demonstrated potential  to foster citizens’ participation in renewable energy projects. The mechanisms are paired with guidance and examples for replication in other contexts.
Handbook / Guide
Socio-Cultural Transformations
Published: 2025

From Incentivizing to Enabling: A practitioner’s guide to equitable climate action in cities

This guidebook is based on practical insights gained from local implementation throughout the INCLU:DE project. It aims to support all stakeholders involved in the planning and implementation of local climate action by offering concrete recommendations, best practices, and practical tools to overcome key challenges.
Handbook / Guide
Sustainable Energy Systems
Published: 2025

Playbook for Data-Driven Energy Communities and a Consumer-Centric Energy Market

The ENPOWER Playbook consists of definitions on key topics, a set of general guidelines to establish data-driven energy-secure Energy Communities, and a step-by-step guide with examples to assist Energy Communities in successfully integrating social engagement approaches and digital solutions. The Playbook also covers case studies from pilots in Ireland and Austria, with success stories and best practices. It also proposes a checklist for the replication of ENPOWER activities and framework, as w...
Policy brief
Circular Economy
Published: 2025

Circular Cities Frontrunner Group policy brief on accelerating the circular economy for a prosperous and competitive Europe

This policy brief supported by over 40 cities and networks, outlines nine proposals from 16 European circular frontrunner cities to strengthen EU circular economy policy. It is structured around three priorities: raising circular ambition, enabling local action and mobilising economic instruments. The brief draws on city experiences to offer practical recommendations and is intended to support the Circular Economy Act, Clean Industrial Deal and related EU policy processes.
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