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Better together: partnerships between local governments and community-led initiatives

28 Jul 2023

Why is collaboration between community-led initiatives and local governments important for sustainable and just cities? What stops it from happening? What techniques...

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INCLU:DE - Tailored social equity support measures in cities’ climate actions

21 Jun 2023

How can balcony solar subsidy programmes benefit low-income and other vulnerable groups? How should cycling and pedestrian experiment zones be distributed across...

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Stop and Reflect: Fair Local Green Deals cities met in Wroclaw to improve their public participation processes

20 Jun 2023

In a workshop in Wroclaw, Poland, the #FairLocalGreenDeals project invited city officials from Gent, Łódź, Vitoria-Gasteiz and Valencia to stop and reflect on...

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Flexing our intersectionality muscles

14 Apr 2023

Those who have been following our work know that we care deeply about intersectional justice, and that we are committed to continuing to grapple with what intersectionality...

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Applying an intersectional lens to urban sustainability projects

6 Feb 2023

By now, we know that sustainability and justice are inextricably linked, and that our sustainability projects must therefore take justice into consideration. But...

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Putting the Locals in Local Green Deal

27 Jan 2023

‘Leave no one behind’ is the central, transformative promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This...

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Three ‘need to know’ lessons when working on sustainability & justice

24 Jan 2023

Our Community Conversation series re-launched in May 2022, and has been thriving ever since. The premise is simple: once per month, anyone is welcome to host a Conversation....

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Money makes the world go ’round?

7 Nov 2022

When we asked the nine UrbanExperimenters that are part of the UrbanCommunity project what they wanted support on, the response was resounding: they wanted advice...

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Local Green Deals: an approach to move from commitment to action

27 Oct 2022

With its European Green Deal, the EU Commission has set an ambitious goal: to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The Green Deal includes economic...

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