EUROCITIES working group education explores intercultural mediators in Ghent

The EUROCITIES education met in Ghent on 18-21 November to discuss the issue of parental involvement to prevent early school leaving.

FONOMOC - Focus group On NOise MOnitoring Cities meeting in Rome, June 2016

WG Noise meeting in Ljubljana, April 2016

WG Noise meeting in Munich, September 2016

EUROCITIES on COP 21 – Stockholm Royal Seaport

Stockholm’s ‘Royal Seaport’ development in converting former industrial brownfield land into a ‘climate positive’ living, working and social space by 2030.

EUROCITIES on COP 21 – using EU funds for energy saving investments in Sofia

Despite a reduced municipal budget, Sofia is making efforts to reduce local energy consumption with the help of EU funds.

Joint letter to MEPs on real-world driving emissions tests

In spite of the recent #dieselgate scandal and the widespread exceedances of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) limits across Europe responsible for 75,000 premature deaths each year, the TCMV voted to allow Euro 6 diesel cars to emit over double the Euro 6 limit from 2017 to 2020 (through the so-called conformity factor (CF) of 2.1), and 50% more after 2020 (CF of 1.5), de facto increasing the standard to 120 mg/km open-endedly. This will lead to much slower improvements in air quality than the EU...

EUROCITIES on COP 21 – Oslo, electric vehicle capital of the world

With 60% of emissions in Oslo coming from the transport sector, encouraging the uptake of electric vehicles is a major part of its CO2 reduction strategy.

Climate Chance summit for cities and other non state actors in Nantes, 26-28 September 2016

Hosted in Nantes, the first CLIMATE CHANCE summit will be held from 26 to 28 September 2016 at La Cité Nantes Events Center. This major event will bring together thousands of participants from all over the world.

EUROCITIES on COP 21: smart city solutions for energy efficiency & climate change

How are cities are using digital technologies to tackle climate change?