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Berlin energy and climate protection programme (BEK)

The Berlin energy and climate protection programme (BEK) is the "roadmap" towards climate neutrality, in which strategies and measures are defined.

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Waste Management Plan 2012-2020

Berlin's Waste Management Plan 2012-20 specifies the key steps needed for the development of waste management in the city into a modern, closed-loop system.

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A greener tomorrow: water management in urban redevelopment

Dortmund has adopted a process of the city's redevelopment, adopting sustainable criteria around greater infrastructure for flood prevention, river revitalization projects, parks and gardens throughou

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Frankfurt 2030

"Frankfurt Your City" is a dialogue process that accompanies and supports the development of the integrated urban development concept.

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Masterplan 100% Climate Protection

Since the beginning of 2013, Frankfurt has developed the “Masterplan 100 % Climate Protection” – a vision of how the city can halve today’s final energy consumption by the year 2050 and meet the remai

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Network "Learning Sustainability"

In 2008, the Frankfurt city council approved the city's participation in the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and launched the project "Fit for the Future - Learning to Sustain in Fr

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Force project: Plastic Waste

The FORCE project aims to minimise the leakage of materials from the linear economy and work towards a circular economy.

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Force project: food and biowaste

The FORCE project aims to minimise the leakage of materials from the linear economy and work towards a circular economy.

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Force project: strategic metals

The FORCE project aims to minimise the leakage of materials from the linear economy and work towards a circular economy.

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Halle 2

Halle 2 is a municipal secondhand store that combines circular economy with the idea of actively supporting sustainable lifestyles in Munich.

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Grover: A new subscription service

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Salza enabling supply driven architecture: builders track components for architects to find

A platform where one can search for or offer components.

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Own brand second-hand sale

Second-hand sale, distribution

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Metal and Glass

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Berlin Energy Turnaround Act

It entered into force on 6 April 2016 and sets the framework for Berlin’s climate protection and energy policy.

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InnovationCity Ruhr

The city itself became a living laboratory for urban redevelopment, sustainable energy and climate change mitigation.

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Batteries2020 - increase the lifetime of Li-lon batteries used by electric vehicles, reduce their cost

Batteries2020 is a consortium that brings together 9 partners from 7 EU member states (Spain, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany' with the aim to increase the lifetime of Li/lon batterie

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Force project: wood waste

The FORCE project aims to minimise the leakage of materials from the linear economy and work towards a circular economy.

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Smarter Together

“Smarter Together” is the joint Smart City Lighthouse project from Vienna, Munich and Lyon. It is co-funded by the EU as part of the Horizon 2020 research program.

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Frankfurt green roof

The city of Frankfurt supports private homeowners and property owners, companies and housing associations who want to bring more green on, to and behind the house.

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Sustainable Business Park

The Frankfurt city council decided in March 2012 to develop a sustainable industrial park.

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Green Procurement Guidelines

The Parliamentary Paper on green procurement is a 150-page catalogue of criteria that defines ecological standards for purchasing products and awarding contracts – for goods such as printer paper, lig

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Hamburg Green Power Strategic Plan

Hamburg has announced a plan to implement a citywide network of green spaces by 2030, linking the city’s outer ring with its dynamic centre through a series of walking- and cycling-friendly regenerate

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SEPARATE project

The SEPARATE project is a private initiative aiming to remove non/technical barriers to market replication of an innovative waste separation and cleaning process that improves the quality of bio/waste

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Law to promote the circular economy and ensure environmentally sound management of waste

The new Waste Management Law (KrWG) transposes the EU Waste Framework Directive (Directive 2008/98 / EC, AbfRRL) into German law and extensively modernises existing German waste legislation.

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Socially-inclusive eco-district

The City of Hannover addressed its metropolitan challenges, including a lack of affordable housing and social inclusion through the creation of the ecological district, Kronsberg.

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Celsius Smart Cities: district heating and cooling solutions

A platform of knowledge and networking, CELSIUS takes a holistic approach to overcome technical, social, financial and political barriers for district heating and cooling solutions.

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Sustainable public procurement (BerlAVG)

In 2010 the Berlin House of Representatives passed the Berlin Public Procurement Act (BerlAVG).

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ReFRESH project

Led by the Wageningen University, the REFRESH consortium brings together 26 partners from 12 countries and China, which includes leading universities, research institutes, private businesses, governme

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Ecoprofit Project

The word ECOPROFIT stands for "Ecological Project for Integrated Environmental Technology".

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Green Roof Strategy

The Hamburg Ministry for Environment and Energy is providing financial support for the creation of green roofs to the sum of € 3 million until the end of 2019.

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Bright mobility management

The Bright mobility management programme led by the City of Munich aims to support citizens, guests and businesses in their individual mobility planning.

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