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Learning from Nantes: organising a city-wide debate on climate neutrality

Published on 29/05/2020
In February 2020, the pilot cities of TOMORROW (Nis, Dublin, Brasov, Brest and Valencia) gathered in Nantes to participate in a training with the aim to learn more about theories and practices of “Transition Roadmapping”. As part of this training, they met multiple people that have been involved in the city’s “Grand Debat” (The Great Debate in English), a participatory process to co-create the energy transition roadmap for the region. Nantes hosted the debate “The Energy Transition is All of Us”…
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Repository of remarkable roadmaps for #CitiesOfTOMORROW

Published on 07/04/2020
In the framework of TOMORROW, we are supporting 6 European cities to develop their transition roadmaps. This is not an easy process: a lot of efforts are needed in order to develop a roadmap - you can have a look at the first draft of our guidelines to learn more about the metholdology. By developing such roadmaps, cities are designing clear pathways to transform their societies to become resilient, resource-efficient and reliant on clean energy sources. In our toolbox, we collected remarkable…
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Mouscron's energy cooperative wins Award of Associative Merit

Published on 14/10/2021
Mouscron's energy cooperative COOPEM, managed by citizens of Mouscron and one of the main actors involved in the city’s 2050 roadmap has been awarded with the 2021 Award of Associative Merit for its cross-border activities in the project TransEnergy. In the framework of this project, COOPEM and the French association Virage Energie organised cross-border walks or cycle rides, to showcase initiatives carried out in the field of energy transition and to fight climate change: renewable energy…
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How to roadmap the transition to climate-neutral cities?

Published on 31/03/2020
Over the past months, we worked on TOMORROW’s methodological guidelines. These willsupport cities in developing a transition roadmap for climate neutral cities in 2050. We refer to this as the “transition roadmapping process”: a searching and learning process based on transition governance principles as developed by DRIFT. These guidelines support local authorities to accelerate the transition to climate neutrality by implementing a transition roadmapping process. Rather than a ready-made…
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Climate-brave Dublin!

Published on 06/03/2020
Last month, Dublin partner Codema gave an overview of the TOMORROW project at the ‘Climate Brave’ event. The event saw Dublin become the first Irish city to sign a commitment to meet World Health Organisation (WHO) air quality guideline values by 2030. The Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Tom Brabazon, and the mayors of the other three other local authorities in Dublin signed up to the 'BreatheLife' campaign and called on citizens to be 'Climate Brave'. By signing up to the campaign…
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Niš' energy transition journey

Published on 14/02/2020
Learn more about one of our pilot cities and its democratic energy transition journey in this article originally published by the MPower Project! The city of Niš recognises the potential that democratic decision-making has in terms of bringing about an ambitious energy transition focused on fighting energy poverty. All the relevant actors are now working together on the transition, bridging initial differences of opinion about democratic ownership models and the need to access external resources…
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Cities of TOMORROW in Nantes: discovering innovative methods for citizens' engagement

Published on 10/02/2020
Last week, TOMORROW's pilot cities went to Nantes to Learn theories and practices of transition governance, transition thinking and roadmap development; Improve their skills for the design of a transition roadmap, process facilitation, monitoring and evaluation, etc; Learn from each other and improve collaboration in the group; Support each other and get ready for the next phase: the development of their "Transition Roadmapping Action Plan". Why Nantes? Nantes became famous for their innovative…
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On the road to climate neutral cities - 3 lessons from Leuven

Published on 28/01/2020
In the city of Leuven in Belgium, over 500 public organisations, businesses and citizens united behind a roadmap towards zero-carbon emissions in 2050. In 2019, that roadmap was officially ratified and adopted by the local administration. The six pilot-cities of TOMORROW visited the city and learned how Leuven is spearheading this new governance model. Katrien Rycken is not afraid to admit it: “It was complex: many different parameters had to be aligned”. Still, it is easy to feel a jolt of…
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Kicking off the project: inspiration from Leuven and Ghent

Published on 22/10/2019
The launch of TOMORROW looked nothing like a regular meeting! On October 16th 2019, the projects partners were brought right into action: they took a short train trip to Ghent and Leuven, two Belgian cities with a very successfull track record on engaging citizens in a dialogue about the future and on experimenting collaborative ways to make a carbon-free city a reality. The focus of the study tours lied in understanding the governance processes at stake in both cities. In Leuven, the group was…
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Wanted: Remarkable roadmaps and inspiring innovations for the energy transition

Published on 01/10/2019
DRIFT is looking for remarkable and inspiring roadmaps and examples of innovative practices that walk the talk for carbon reductions. TOMORROW project will help cities design transition roadmaps by engaging citizens and stakeholders. DRIFT is currently developing a repository of roadmaps and factsheets as part of this process and call on you to share your good practices! This fall we are launching TOMORROW, the ambitious roadmapping initiative in which we support European cities to become carbon…