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Practical Check! Considering the application of fuel cell hydrogen gensets in cities

Within the greater efforts of local governments to reduce the environmentally negative impact of urban activities including temporary events, this report shows that hydrogen fuel cell generators can be part of the toolbox of solution, if the right framework conditions are met. Local governments have both an incentive as well as the right mandates in place to promote this technology along with other options to improve the environmental footprint of construction sites and other temporary events. A...

Tackling the climate and biodiversity crises in Europe through Urban Greening Plans

Recommendations on implementing and operationalising Urban Greening Plans.

Inventory structure and main feature and datasets (Deliverable 3.1)

The Horizon 2020 (H2020) BuiltHub project aims to analyze the Building Stock Observatory (BSO) by providing feedback and a possible list of relevant indicators, in addition to developing a community of data providers and users. Collectively, this will allow for a continuous flow of relevant and complete data. Details about these processes and the project are addressed in this report.

UrbanByNature - the global programme for urban nature pioneers

UrbanByNature is a facilitated capacity-building programme promoting exchange among cities, researchers and SMEs and building bridges with the NBS communities in Brazil, the Caucasus, China, South America, Korea, and South-Eastern Europe. Participation in the programme is open and free of charge with new opportunities coming up regularly for other regions worldwide. New hubs are planned in Spain, Scotland and Flandres.

Stakeholder needs and technical requirements for BuiltHub (Deliverable 2.2)

This project deliverable conducts an analysis of stakeholder needs and technical requirements, with the goal of designing a platform and its services to suitably serve the community. To determine stakeholder needs and requirements, a review of the legislation relevant to building performance analysis, a survey and interviews were conducted. The results show that services like data collection and storage, processing and analysis, benchmarking data, visualisation, data sharing, and exchange are of...

Policy Brief 01 | Holistic youth policy interventions

In this Policy Brief, we present inspiring examples of holistic policy interventions and key takeaways for policy makers at national and sub-national levels of government. These key takeaways aim to support the implementation of more holistic, process-oriented and personalized youth policy interventions. The recommendations are based on the work delivered by the Research & Innovation UPLIFT project which aims to understand the patterns and trends of inequality across Europe, focusing on youn...

Policy Brief 02 | Participatory policy making

In this Policy Brief, we present inspiring examples of participatory policy making and key takeaways for policy makers at national and sub-national levels of government. These key takeaways aim to support the implementation of more participatory policy co-creation processes, including young people. The recommendations are based on the work delivered by the Research & Innovation UPLIFT project which aims to understand the patterns and trends of inequality across Europe, focusing on young peop...

Cities for an Integrated Landscape Approach - Curbing Land Degradation and Restoring Europe’s Soil Ecosystems

This ICLEI Europe led position paper provides key recommendations concerning the EU Soil Strategy for 2030.

Policy Support Facility: Fostering a local just resilience - “Navigating the EU policy and financial landscape”

The session “Navigating the EU policy and financial landscape” informs about the functioning and main objectives of the new EU Policy Support Facility - Covenant of Mayors, setting it in the framework of the latest European policies on climate change adaptation. The webinar provides an overview of the financing and funding opportunities at the EU level that can help cities and regions to put adaptation plans into action.