SMART CITIES LIVE

50% of Europe's energy consumption consists of heat and cooling. In order to achieve the climate goals, a comprehensive adjustment to get away from fossil energy sources, such as coal and gas, is necessary. According to a decision by the European Commission, the Gothenburg-led project Celsius Initiative continues to have the confidence to drive and accelerate this development in European cities. "The fact that we win a bid from the European Commission not only means an opport

The construction accounts for a large part of the real estate industry's climate impact. In the project Climate Requirements at a reasonable cost, Sweden's Allmännytta, formerly SABO, the credit institution Kommuninvest and IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet work together with the goal of developing an industry standard for calculating climate impact and being able to set climate requirements for new production. The project also wants to become the standard for integrating life-cycl

Federal payments to state governments and corporations in the course of the coalition exit are to be linked to a decentralised and citizen-oriented expansion of renewable energies. This is what eco-energy provider Greenpeace Energy is demanding from the German government with a package of legal measures presented today. This is to ensure that renewable energy can be quickly built on former lignite opencast mines. Politicians must make this legally binding, according to Greenp