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News Dossier: Sustainable Neighbourhood Development – Balancing Climate Protection, Climate Adaptation and Future-Proofing

The consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly apparent: extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts, heavy rainfall and flooding are disrupting public life and affecting the qual

Project Standards for Municipal Climate Action Monitoring

Runtime 04/2026 – 04/2029

Municipalities play a key role in implementing climate action to achieve national climate targets. To assess the effectiveness and alignment of local climate action, municipalities need practical and

Publication Immobilieneigentümer*innen zu energetischen Sanierungsmaßnahmen motivieren

Klimaschutz im Gebäudebereich voranbringen

Authors: Angelika Paar , Lisa Muckenfuß , Jens Bieker
Year: 2026

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News Brochure: Shaping the heat transition – knowledge and ideas for local activists

Around 70 per cent of flats and houses in Germany are still heated with natural gas or heating oil. At the same time, valuable heat is lost in many buildings through leaky windows and uninsulated faca

Project From the Present to the Future: The Transformation of Housing Estates in Small Towns

Runtime 11/2025 – 01/2026

Small towns have a diverse housing stock that varies according to when it was built and its architectural typology. Depending on their location, small towns face very different challenges: whilst in o

Project Municipal heat advisory boards

Runtime 08/2025 – 03/2026

As part of the 2024 Heat Summit , the idea was developed to establish municipal heat advisory boards as committees for the participation of local stakeholders in the municipal heat planning process. H

Project Sustainable Neighborhood Development

Runtime 07/2025 – 12/2025

The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly noticeable: Extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, heavy rainfall, and flooding are disrupting public life and reducing the qualit

News Study on the evaluation of measures in municipal climate action is available

Against the background of scarce resources in municipalities, it is important to tackle climate action measures effectively and efficiently and to evaluate them in a standardized, objective and transp

Publication IkKa – Technical Annex

As part of the project ‘Instruments for municipal climate action’ (IkKa)

Authors: Benjamin Gugel , Fabian Bergk , Laura Lütkes , Lena Schreiner , Eva Späte , Philipp Wachter
Year: 2025

Technical Annex (PDF, 1 MB)

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Publication IkKa – Recommendations for the evaluation of measures in municipal climate action

As part of the project ‘Instruments for municipal climate action’ (IkKa)

Authors: Benjamin Gugel , Fabian Bergk , Clemens Hecker , Laura Lütkes , Heike Oehler , Eva Späte , Lena Schreiner , Philipp Wachter
Year: 2025

IkKa – Empfehlungen zur Bewertung von Maßnahmen im kommunalen Klimaschutz (PDF, 3 MB)

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