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Buildings and green energy production : places to visit! Résidence La Sauvenière:For the 600 residents of this condominium, environmental awareness was triggered by the combination of energy price rises and the realization that large potential energy consumption reductions were possible by means of (...)


		Budapest wins European Mobility Week Award! Commissioner Dimas said: "European Mobility Week is making a tangible contribution to tackling the air pollution, traffic congestion and noise from private transport that afflict our towns and cities. Participation in last year’s Mobility Week was higher than ever and I believe this reflects a (...) By Olivier Lagarde, on 25 February 2009 \| 10h55 \| 558 visits Read more >>


		Thimk Again The ThimkAgain! campaign is a project created by the Milton Keynes Local Strategic Partnership with initial funding from Milton Keynes Council with support from the centre:mk, City Discovery Centre, Milton Keynes Partnership, National Energy Foundation, United Sustainable Energy Agency and (...) By Ian Turner, on 19 February 2009 \| 12h31 \| 472 visits Read more >>


		The Covenant of Mayors & the Third Industrial Revolution According to Jeremy Rifkin, the Covenant of Mayors and in particular constituent cities, can play a major role in the new energy model of the Third Industrial Revolution. This Roundtable is currently engaged with American and European cities to move beyond the 20/20/20 targets. It is composed (...) By Miriam Eisermann, on 18 February 2009 \| 15h04 \| 531 visits Read more >>


		500 M€ for « Covenant Cities »? Energie-Cités pleads for this indispensable human capital investment! At the same time, an Economic Recovery Plan is being discussed. A financial support of €500M was foreseen for the cities. Regrettably, though, this money was now removed from the list of planned measures for the benefit of actions aimed at the energy supply! Indeed, this is a very bad political (...) By Gérard Magnin, on 16 February 2009 \| 13h04 \| 471 visits Read more >>


		More than 300 EU Mayors commit to go beyond the 3x20% In his speech in front of more than 1000 participants, Commissioner Piebalgs said the initiative will affect 80 million Europeans and will save around €8 billion in energy costs. Denis Baupin, Deputy Mayor of Paris (Energie-Cités’ member city), said his city hoped to reduce emissions by 25 (...) By Blandine Pidoux, on 13 February 2009 \| 14h49 \| 483 visits Read more >>


		Five members nominated for the European Mobility Week Award 2009 An independent panel of experts shortlisted 10 local authorities which they considered had performed outstandingly well during the European Mobility Week 2008. The cities of Almada (Portugal), Budapest (Hungary), Cork (Ireland), Krakow (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia), all members of Energie-Cités (...) By Olivier Lagarde, on 12 February 2009 \| 18h15 \| 410 visits Read more >>


		Seven MODEL pilot cities awarded during EUSEW As a result the jury decided to award: two cities in the category of the "Best Energy Management Unit" (9 applications received): 1st prize for the City of Koprivnice (CZ) 2nd prize for the city of Velenje (SI) four cities in the category of the "Best Municipal Intelligent Energy Days" (21 (...) By Christophe Fréring, on 12 February 2009 \| 16h53 \| 345 visits Read more >>


		350 Mayors set out to E.U. Energy and Climate Targets Energie-Cités welcomes this initiative that will motivate Cities and Towns in taking up the challenge with their citizens and stakeholders, together with the E.U. institutions, as the network had been awaiting this project for many years As managers of local communities, local authorities are (...) By Blandine Pidoux, on 10 February 2009 \| 09h22 \| 399 visits Read more >>


		Renewable energies have their International Agency Renwables have not developped sufficiently compared to the primary energy consumption During the five-year period 2002-2006, global renewable energy capacity grew at rates of 15-30 percent annually for many technologies, including wind power, solar hot water, geothermal heating, and off-grid (...) By Blandine Pidoux, on 3 February 2009 \| 12h51 \| 452 visits Read more >>


		Commission sets out proposals for global pact on climate change at Copenhagen The new pact is due to be concluded at the Copenhagen UN climate conference in December. In order to keep temperature increase below 2°C, developing countries will require substantially higher funding from the developed world and multilateral institutions to help them shoulder their contribution (...) By Blandine Pidoux, on 2 February 2009 \| 17h51 \| 352 visits Read more >>