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        • Denmark

        • 2022

        Green fund to investment in clean technologies

        In 2022, the government launched a green fund to accelerate Denmark's green transition and in the phasing out of fossil fuels. Overall, DKK 53.5 billion is set aside for investments, with DKK 1.5 billion pledged for 2024 and DKK 3.5 billion annually from 2024-2040.To be eligible, projects need to be related to energy and supply, food and agriculture, buildings and infrastructure, materials and resources or transport and mobility. 

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        • India

        • 2016

        Jakarta Smart City

        …and payment systems to provide reliable, safe and affordable services. Authorities are thereby transforming the city from car dependency to transit-oriented development. The increased ease and predictability of public transport has helped increase ridership. Under PT JakLingko Indonesia, this comprehensive integration process increased the number of Transjakarta users from around 397 000 per day in December 2017 to just over 1 million per day in February 2020. It also allows the provincial government to collect data on 2.5 million passengers in the Greater Jakarta Area (Jabodetabek) and perform analytics on urban mobility to support continued increases in ridership.

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        • Netherlands

        • 2021

        Brunel hydrogen course to retrain oil and gas workers

        …with oilandgasjobsearch.com, which showed a third of oil and gas workers were looking for new jobs in the renewables industry. The European Union will invest EUR 250 billion (of which EUR 4.5 billion is planned in the Netherlands) into hydrogen production, which will generate strong demand for hydrogen specialists in coming years. The course will be a fully accredited postgraduate degree covering the fundamentals of hydrogen production, usage (mobility, industry and built environment) and the full value chain, as well as policies, regulatory and legal issues. It will be the first such programme in the world. It is…

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        • European Union

        • 2002

        European Master in Renewable Energy

        …technologies; in the second semester, they choose a technology for specialisation at a separate university; and during the final session, students undertake a six-month practical training or research project. Universities offer different specialisations, such as in photovoltaics, wind energy, grid integration, solar thermal and associated renewable storage, ocean energy, and sustainable fuel systems for mobility. Each university can admit around 8 to 15 students. For the academic year 2019-2020, 59 students participated in the programme. For Academic Year 2022-2023, the course fee is EUR 8 000 for EU students and EUR 13 000 for non-EU students. 

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        • Panama

        • 2020

        Panama’s Energy Transition Council

        In November 2020, the government of Panama established an Energy Transition Council to provide advice, consultation and accountability for the government’s enactment of the Strategic Guidelines of Panama´s Energy Transition Agenda. Among its thematic areas of focus are universal energy access, energy efficiency, electric mobility, distributed generation, grid modernisation and the hydrocarbons sector. The Council is comprised of a number of stakeholders from the public and private sectors and academia. As part of its transition agenda, the government has prepared ‘Energy Pacts’ that represent voluntary commitments of the country to expand energy coverage, electrification and renewable energy capacity by…

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        • Spain

        • 2021

        Spain’s aid for small municipalities

        …Spain’s depopulation trend is concentrated in rural areas. The scheme therefore provides subsidies to aid small municipalities (with less than 5 000 inhabitants) improve energy efficiency and promote sustainable mobility in rural areas. A total of 6 974 municipalities meet the eligibility criteria, accounting for 14% of Spain’s total population. The DUS 5000 aid programme is geared towards entities undertaking local clean energy projects in these municipalities, such as energy efficiency projects in public and residential buildings and public infrastructure – notably public lighting – as well as sustainable mobility, by promotion by municipalities in the deployment of electric vehicle…

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        • European Union

        • 2021

        The European Commission’s Social Climate Fund

        …help address any social impacts that arise from the new system, with the twin objectives of supporting vulnerable households and micro-enterprises adopt clean mobility solutions and renovate their homes while also potentially granting them temporary direct income support . Vulnerable households, micro-enterprises and transport users are likely to be disproportionally affected by the increase in the price for fossil fuels. Low-income households tend to spend a larger part of their incomes on energy and transport and in some regions lack access to alternative, affordable mobility and transport solutions. The funding of the future Social Climate Fund will come…

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        • France

        • 2018

        Citizen’s Climate Convention in France

        …to 1990, in a spirit of social justice”. The citizens worked intensively for 9 months on the basis of hearings of experts with conflicting opinions and summaries of research (by academic experts, international bodies and NGOs). They were supported by dozens of experts to draft a set of concrete measures. Social dialogue specialists also facilitated the debates within the convention. The Convention and the related Citizen Assembly voted for 149 measures encompassing all sectors related to the ecological transition: mobility, consumption, housing, production and food. The French president committed to implement 146 of the 149 measures. To do so, the…

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        • Poland

        • 2021

        National Recovery Plan

        The Polish National Recovery Plan sets out measures for rebuilding Poland's socio-economic resilience after the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The plan focuses on investing in digital transformation, competitiveness of the economy, clean energy, reduction of energy intensity, availability and quality of the health care system, green and intelligent mobility, and infrastructure investments including railways and roads. 

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        • Spain

        • 2021

        Recovery, transformation and resilience plan

        …gender equality and social and territorial cohesion. Some 70% of this  Plan (EUR 70 000 million) will go to the areas of green economy and ecologic transition, notably :       Component 1: Sustainable mobility plan (urban and rural agenda) – EUR 6 536 millionComponent 2: Building and housing rehabilitation – EUR 6 820 million   Component 6: Sustainable mobility (energy transition ) – EUR 6 667 million - most of this to electric vehicle   Component 7: Renewables integration – EUR 3 165 million   Component 8: Electric infrastructure, smart grids, flexibility and storage – EUR 1 365 million   Component 9: Green hydrogen – EUR 1 555 million   Component 10: Fair transition – EUR…

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