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January 22, 2018 10:24 AM
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Turkey is definitely in the midst of its energy transition. Both energy efficiency and renewable energy are gaining in importance in the overall energy strategy. Increasingly, Turkey is also aligning itself with EU energy directives. The Daily Sabah website writes about the approval of the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan that is an obligation for…
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January 22, 2018 10:22 AM
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Investment in green energy fell 56% in UK in 2017 – biggest fall of any country – after ‘stop-start’ support from government
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January 22, 2018 10:20 AM
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January 22, 2018 10:05 AM
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January 22, 2018 4:53 AM
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The city has waged a remarkably successful effort to get cars off its streets and reclaim walkable space. But it didn’t happen overnight.
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January 19, 2018 4:21 AM
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Renewable energy’s cost reductions may be tapering off, as investments levels are flat and system costs are becoming more important than component costs, writes Roger Arnold. This implies that policy support should shift to storage and infrastructural approaches.
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January 18, 2018 12:29 PM
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Green lawmakers have hailed a “great victory for the climate” as a proposal to bring down to zero the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted in the atmosphere by 2050 received unexpected backing from the European Parliament yesterday (17 January).
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January 17, 2018 5:02 AM
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January 16, 2018 1:21 PM
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"Grégoire Niaudet from Caritas France offers this ambitious overview of available sustainable finance policy tools. The original publication can be found in English and in French on Caritas' website."
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January 16, 2018 1:04 PM
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85 % of the energy will be self-supplied in Clichy Batignolles thanks to 200 000 m2 of solar panels and geothermal wells.
x 3 the production of renewable energies by 2025 in Paris.
3,5 GW/h of solar photovoltaic energy will be produced in Clichy Batignolles by 2020 while only 3 GW/h of solar photovoltaic energy was produced in Paris in 2014.
x 2 the potential of production of geothermal energy in Paris by 2020. 83 % of heat requirement is provided by geothermal energy in Clichy Batignolles.
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January 16, 2018 12:56 PM
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The FED project confirms Gothenburg as a frontrunner in developing the energy solutions of a fossil-free society. The idea is to reduce energy consumption by establishing a local market place for electricity, heating and cooling. Hopefully, this model will prove capable of speeding up the energy transition across Europe.
Ann-Sofie Hermansson, Mayor of the City of Gothenburg
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January 16, 2018 11:50 AM
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This paper presents a possible new approach to the management of urban spaces reflecting the current challenges in spatial development based on the theory of commons and innovative governance modes. The new approach is built on innovations in institutional regimes, the algorithm of decision-making and economic expression and interpretation of quality of the space. The theory of the commons as the base source for this approach has been broadly proved in practice and Elinor Ostrom as the author of this theory [3-5] was awarded by Nobel Prize in 2009.
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January 16, 2018 6:21 AM
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"Ensuring a Clean, Affordable and Reliable Heating System
Stakeholders and policy-makers increasingly recognize the magnitude of the coming challenge to decarbonize the residential heating system, which represents approximately 15% of Dutch final energy consumption. This CIEP paper considers three alternative heating options which could reduce emissions in the run-up to 2050 and eventually have the potential to become fully carbon neutral, namely: all-electric heat pumps, district heating and hybrid heat pumps."
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January 22, 2018 10:23 AM
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The EU’s climate chief Miguel Arias Cañete has vowed to increase the bloc’s funding for climate change adaption, pledging that 20% of the EU’s foreign spending would be allocated to climate-related projects.
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January 22, 2018 10:21 AM
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“Since its establishment in 1958 the EU bank, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, has invested over €1 trillion based on a cash contribution by the member states of just €14 billion” European Investment Bank (EIB) President Werner Hoyer said today (18 January). “It is an excellent deal for Europeans. That trillion attracted other investment from [...]
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January 22, 2018 10:19 AM
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+ VIDEO. L'activité de « minage » demande une grande quantité d'électricité pour faire fonctionner l
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January 22, 2018 4:56 AM
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PPC Renewables, a wholly-owned green energy subsidiary of PPC, is ready to develop 700 MW in RES capacity, mostly in the wind and photovoltaics.
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January 19, 2018 5:42 AM
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Taking Munich’s crown The City of Barcelona is migrating its computer systems away from Windows making it the poster child for Open Source rather than Munich which is frantically trying to migrate back.
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January 19, 2018 3:46 AM
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The way network tariffs are established in Germany is completely opaque, writes Andreas of RAP. It is unclear how costs are calculated and how they are allocated to customers.
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January 17, 2018 5:33 AM
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Sir Nigel Shadbolt, chairman of the Open Data Institute, explains how governments have got to change the narrative when it comes to data.
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January 17, 2018 4:49 AM
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"Depuis les années 80, l’ours polaire dérivant sur sa banquise est l’image la plus emblématique pour évoquer le changement climatique. Pendant des années, cette représentation a peut-être associé les sujets environnementaux à un problème lointain géographiquement et ps ychologiquement. Mais en 30 ans, les problématiques environnementales se sont diversifiées et intensifiées. Les messages de sensibilisation sur le tri, la pollution, le gaspillage se multiplient. Mais la façon de les traiter a peu évolué.
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January 16, 2018 1:12 PM
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"I attended the URBACT City Festival with no prior experience with the URBACT programme, other than the responsibility I took on in organising my city’s good practice application. I have partnered with the Municipality of Heraklion on the island of Crete in Greece for a decade now and have been involved with its efforts in realising its good practice: the Smart City Strategic Plan. Attending the Festival was an opportunity for me to communicate all of the activities, the actions and even the struggles that my city has faced over the past decade in developing this plan. However, equally, and probably even more valuable, was the experience I gained from the interactions I had with all of the representatives of cities across Europe." By Lazaros Agapides
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January 16, 2018 1:00 PM
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"We strongly believe in this project, because one of the most important challenges that cities have to face is the improvement of the quality of life. The objective is multiple and really ambitious: to reduce the energy bill, to reverse the gains of this decrease in improving the housing, and to boost the local economy among the people who are associated with the project. In addition, we want to promote among citizens the culture of energy saving, by providing them with tools to make this possible, and develop a local platform to integrate all local efforts in the way of energy transition”
Carles Ruiz, Mayor of Viladecans
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January 16, 2018 12:48 PM
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“Kerkrade is proud of its Super Circular Estate project which sees the restructuring of a large residential area in a highly innovative and for the most part previously unseen manner. The results of this project will deliver a considerable Contribution to future sustainable urban restructuring developments, in which not only materials are reused but also residents' thoughts and ideas play an integral part.”
Tim Weijers, Deputy Mayor of Kerkrade in charge of spatial planning and public housing.
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January 16, 2018 9:17 AM
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Bottrop sits in the Ruhr Valley, a dense stretch of towns and suburbs home to 5.5 million people. Some 500,000 miners once worked in the region’s nearly 200 mines, producing as much as 124 million tons of coal every year.
Next year, that era will come to an end when this mine closes. The Ruhr Valley is in the midst of a remarkable transformation. Coal and steel plants have fallen quiet, one by one, over the course of the last half-century. Wind turbines have sprung up among old shaft towers and coking plants as Germany strives to hit its renewable energy goals.
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