3.Rethink financing solutions
What are the solutions to the public financial, debt and credit crisis? How can we finance the energy transition? What can we do to make it a driving force behind the local economy and job creation? What are the new financial cash flows for this new economy?

Proposals for mobilising financial resources, in particular of local stakeholders and citizens:
3.1. Keep money spent on energy near to home
- Güssing (AT),
- Antonesti (MD),
- Samso (DK),
- Orebro (SE).
3.2. Collect local savings and invest them in sustainable local energy projects
- Copenhagen (DK),
- the Energy Share funds (GB).
3.3. Integrate future energy prices in the economic calculations made prior to investment decisions
3.4. Dedicate human capacities in financial engineering
- Vila Nova de Gaia (PT),
- Malmö (SE),
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (GB).
3.5. Set up financial structures dedicated to the energy transition
- Hanover (DE),
- the "Green Deal" (GB),
- the REScoop network.

3.6. Channel spending towards local economies by means of a local currency - Wiki only
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1. Empowering local actors
2. Knowing our territories’ resources and flows
4. Inventing a new local governance
5. Urban planning as a way of reducing energy use
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