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Cities show commitment to climate adaptation
As climate impacts worsen, Europe's cities are leading adaptation efforts, despite funding and governance challenges. At a Brussels seminar, cities called for better EU support to meet 2050 climate resilience goals.
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Cities and migrants’ rights in the era of digitalisation
One of the most transformative aspects of the new Pact on Migration and Asylum is that technology plays a central role in implementing migration policies.
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Bilbao, a city of social innovation
Bilbao’s transformation from industrial hub to cultural icon continues with a focus on social innovation, citizen engagement, and sustainable development.
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Cities advocating for a sustainable food future in Europe
At the Food Trails Final Conference, leaders stressed the need for inclusive, healthy, and sustainable food systems, urging EU reforms and city-driven innovation.
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“In Bilbao, local innovation ecosystems allow us to envision unthinkable horizons”
As Bilbao gears up to host the next Economic Development Forum meeting next October, Eurocities sat down with Mayor Juan Mari Aburto to discuss the city's remarkable transformation and vision for the future.
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Giving furniture a second life
Stockholm's Stocket Återbruk service reuses furniture and equipment to reduce waste and contribute to a circular economy, while providing job training for participants.
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Cities insist on a sustainable future at Eurocities 2024
“Acting on climate change is not an option, it is a must,” Pekka Timonen, Mayor of Vantaa told the hundreds of European city representatives gathered at the Eurocities 2024 Annual Conference in Cluj Napoca.
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Preventing food crises through collaboration
In Warsaw, cities discussed how food systems are connected and vulnerable to crises. The key to build resilience in the face of these crises lies in collaboration.
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Turning waste into wealth: Inside Madrid’s circular economy hub
Madrid’s Centre for Innovation in the Circular Economy has been established as a tool to facilitate the green and digital transition. It offers training, business support and space for experimentation to help the whole city reduce waste and embrace new opportunities through the circular economy.
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How cultural heritage contributes to the green, digital, and social transition
Seven Eurocities members were selected as good examples of cultural heritage initiatives driving sustainability, digitalisation, and inclusion.
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Toulouse reconstructs circular construction
Cities can't turn lead into gold, but used metal is one of many waste materials that Toulouse wants to use to power the circular economy.
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Uppsala building on the past
Materials for construction and renovation represent a major carbon cost. At the same time as the demand for materials flies up, tonnes of perfectly good older materials are ending up in landfills all over Europe. For Uppsala, the solution is obvious.
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49 recommendations that sparked the green transformation
Rafal Trzaskowski, mayor of Warsaw, received 49 environmental requests from a citizens' panel debate
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Cities sign international commitment for low carbon and more inclusive culture
More than 30 cities have signed the 'Eurocities Lille Call to Action for low carbon and more inclusive culture'.
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