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Cities of Agios Dimitrios and Bottrop launch first Greek-German municipal climate partnership
Seeking to exchange good practices and collaborate on local climate action, representatives of Bottrop and Agios Dimitrios held their first meeting in Agios Dimitrios, Greece from 22 to 23 November…
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Our buildings – accelerating climate action for buildings in Romania and Bulgaria
The Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) together with Energy Cities Romania and EnEffect kick-started a new project under the EUKI framework focusing on developing capacity and transferring…
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Saving energy in Greek schools
With the Mayor of Athens in attendance, the first public event of the EUKI project for climate-friendly schools in Greece took place at the end of October this year. The…
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Successful climate protection policies in Europe
The EUKI project BEACON has released 21 new fact sheets on the effects and transferability of different energy policy instruments.
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Just transition: Germany supporting exchange of experience between European coal regions
The Federal Environment Ministry supports exchange of experience between Europe's coal regions. The Ministry’s European Climate Initiative (EUKI) funds projects that develop networks on socially just transition strategies. This includes…
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Training concept for capacity building
Representatives of the Municipal Energy Management (MEM) project consortium met for the second time in September 2018 in Maribor, Slovenia, to discuss an initial draft training concept for capacity building…
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Making climate visions a reality in the Alps
The conference ‘Make Climate Visions Become Reality’ held in Innsbruck (Austria) from 7 to 9 November brought together local actors from seven Alpine countries to discuss ideas for joint climate…
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Young professionals on a mission to reduce costs and protect the climate
The Young Energy Europe project combines climate protection and efficiency. Young employees drive the project by measuring energy consumption in their companies and developing potential ways to save energy.
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Fighting climate change with fruit and vegetables
Representatives from local authorities joined 90 children to celebrate the launch of the new EUKI project Frutti per la Biosfera, which promotes environmental education, climate protection and food in Sicily.
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Interview: Rewetting peatlands to cut emissions
Martti Mandel, as Head of the Agricultural Environment Bureau of Estonia’s Ministry of Rural Affairs, works to join up agricultural and environmental issues. In September 2018 he participated in a…
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Municipalities and schools from seven European countries work together on climate action
Five German municipalities have established climate action partnerships with five municipalities from Poland, Romania and Greece and launched cooperation pro-jects. These and 24 other municipalities from Portugal and the Czech…
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Franco-German cooperation fosters the energy transition
During a conference on pioneering regions of the energy transition, held in Paris in early September, French and German local cooperation was celebrated as a way to accelerate the energy…
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