In April 2024, an Open Call for Phase II of the Citizen-led renovation initiative invited established and aspiring energy communities, citizen groups, local authorities, NGOs, and other organisations to lead renovation projects. Today, we are pleased to update you on the outcome of the call by p...

What do you want the future to look like? In which future would you like to live? These questions of high relevance for policy were at the heart of the Conference on the Future of Europe that ended in May 2022. This EU initiative created a new space for debate with citizens on how to respond to ...

Aiming to empower young people to proactively shape the future of their region, the Ida-Viru Youth Climate Assembly is a powerful example of how to give youth a voice in the transition process and integrate their recommendations into official policy development work streams. The assembly brought...

This paper examines the fiscal implications of the global transition to climate neutrality, focusing on government expenditures, revenues, and the need for a comprehensive fiscal strategy within country level transition plans. The paper analyses the impact of climate change and policy responses ...

The project “Strukturlotsen” (which translates to: ‘structural pilots’) aims to improve the capacities of district authorities to pursue regional development through expertise-sharing. The project brings four districts together, each one of them having a person (known as a ‘structural pilot’) re...