Case studies and articles

The Urban Development Concept consists of three main parts.

Oslo’s incentives programme on electric vehicles (which also includes national incentives) comprises zero rated purchasing tax and no VAT, free pass on toll roads, access to bus and taxi lanes, free p

The City of Zagreb subsidizes the costs of procurement and installation of renewable energy systems in the area of ​​the City of Zagreb.

The Flemish Government implements landfill and incineration restrictions.

Through the PAYT waste collection, citizens are charged for the collection and treatment of the municipal solid waste, based on the amount they throw away.

The Paris Circular Economy Roadmap has the sharing premises of spatial optimization and solutions for the costly rent and property pressures in Paris.

The Metropolitan City of Rome published a tender for calls to award contributions to those municipalities willing to undertake projects aimed at reducing food waste and rescuing unsold food for cha

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.

The main objective of the local waste management plan is to minimise waste impact on the environment and to increase the efficiency of resources use, for instance, by establishing a waste management s

In order to enable citizens to become active part of the energy transition, the Environmental Protection Department of Warsaw City Council is providing different needs-based subsidies schemes.

Rotterdam is promoting the construction of green roofs in several ways. A subsidy scheme, for example, will provide a financial incentive for building a green roof.

The city of Amsterdam is in full support of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Studies (AMS).

A financial support is provided to social economy actors according to the quantities of waste collected and recycled and products reused.

The Catalan Eco-Vouchers Programme aims to foster eco-innovative projects and solutions that would help SMEs to turn their processes, products and services to a more green and circular innovative way.

Despite not having a national landfill tax, the Article 16 of the Spanish Waste Act allows waste authorities from different autonomous communities (regions) to apply economic incentives, in order to p

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.

The packaging deposit was established by the Ministry of the Environment for glass and plastic bottles in 2005.