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After more than a year since the project started, we discussed with the pilot #CitiesOfTOMORROW to understand what are their most recent achievements and what are they planning next. 2020 has been a challenging year for local governments. Despite having to cope with the pandemic, TOMORROW’s cities managed to advance towards the development of their 2050 roadmaps in the following areas: The establishment of a local transition team A motivated group of people is bringing forward the works in each…

After approving its Sustainable Eneregy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) from 2019-2025, Brest métropole wishes to go further in mobilising local stakeholders and citizens. On 27 November, nearly 120 people representing local companies, associations, municipalities and researchers, responded to Brest Metropole's call for climate committments. During an online meeting, Glen DISSAUX, Vice-President of Brest Metropole in charge of the Sustainable Eneregy and Climate Action Plan, the local COP* and…

The French city of Rouen has local climate agreement since November 2018. This mobilization of local players in favor of the climate was initiated by the Rouen Normandy Metropolis in partnership with WWF France and the French environment and energy agency ADEME. The aim of this unique approach was to inform, understand, discuss and act together to limit the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the area. Citizens, Communities, Companies and Associations were involved and could…

Following the proposal of the mayor Joan Ribó, Valencia City Council approved the regulation of the working groups of the València 2030 Strategy, and the creation of the first of them, the Working Group on Energy Transition. The new group can count on the participation of the València Climate and Energy Foundation, business associations, citizen, professional entities, and academic institutions. As explained by the mayor, Joan Ribó, "the objective is to define and implement a whole range of…

Brașov will be among the first cities in Romania to have 100% electric public transport The Minister of Environment, Water and Forests, Costel ALEXE, announced that Brașov will be the first big city in Romania to have 100% electric public transport, targeting to change 75% of the total fleet by the end of this year, namely 133 electric vehicles. The Environment Minister tested in Brașov one of the 52 electric buses financed by the Environment Fund Administration (AFM). The bus covered its first…

The metropolitan government of Brest is getting ready to organise a first major event dedicated to the involvement of local players and citizens in the transition at the end of November. How? Read more and find out! After drawing up its Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) in 2019, Brest Métropole, with its 8 municipalities (215,000 inhabitants), wanted to take a step forward and focus on collective mobilisation for the energy, climate and societal transition. Since the spring of…

Energy Cities interviewed Alejandro Ramon Àlvarez, Councillor in charge of the climate emergency and the energy transition for the city of Valencia. He talked about Covid, citizen participation and the keenness to look beyond the city’s borders. Spain has been one of the European countries most affected by Covid. What is the situation in Valencia? And what has been your personal remedy to keep your spirits up? Alejandro Ramon: Indeed, in Spain the situation was and still is very delicate. We are…

We have just released TOMORROW's Workbook for Urban Transition Makers! This workbook presents different tools to analyse the transition dynamics and the actors in a specific system. It will support those who are interested in facilitating social processes underlying sustainability transitions. Thanks to this tools you will be able to: Know how to analyse the dynamics of your system: Arrive at a shared understanding of the different actors in a system and their roles; Bring together and…

Codema, which is the energy agency for Dublin and is representing Dublin as a pilot city in the TOMORROW project, has recently developed another 150 Home Energy Saving Kits, which will be launched into 8 new regions across Ireland, while also adding more kits to existing library networks. The Home Energy Saving Kit was launched by Codema in 2016 as a pilot scheme in Dublin City Council’s Public Libraries and since then has expanded to almost every public library in Dublin, and from a selection…

A local campaign targeting youth mobility makes for an excellent way to involve the schools in their city's transition towards a sustainable future! The sanitary crisis and the increasingly visible effects of the pandemic are likely to overshadow scholars' enthusiastic start of the new school year. The imposed safety conditions and necessary social distancing might cast a haze over the impatience of every beginning, over the curiosity and thirst to learn, over the children’s need to interact…