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Category: Public engagement

Report on Greater Manchester fuel poverty workshop

Neil Simcock recently attended a workshop focussed on the development of a fuel poverty strategy for Greater Manchester.

Reflections on panel debate at the European Congress of Local Government

Neil Simcock describes a panel discussion about energy poverty that took place in Krakow, Poland.

Public outreach on energy poverty in Europe

EVALUATE researcher Harriet Thomson established the EU Fuel Poverty Network in 2011, and since then it has grown to be one of the leading online portals for fuel poverty. Read more about the latest developments here.

EVALUATE project issues new policy brief

A new policy brief is now available on the website of the EVALUATE project. The brief reports on some of … More

What is the state of the Earth’s environment?

Our research associate Nora Mzavanadze is part of the authors’ team for the 6th Global Enviroment Oulook (GEO-6) report – a global state of the environment report led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She is back from the authors’ meeting at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and in this blog post she describes the raison d’être of such a report, explains the GEO process, summarizes the conclusions of the GEO-5 report and discusses the the novelties of the GEO-6 report.

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Evening seminar on ‘Approaching Resilience’

CURE is hosting an evening seminar with Peter Rogers from Macquarie University and Sören Becker from the Lebniz Institute for Regional Planning.

Energy poverty in Macedonia – workshop report

We conclude our series of reports on the EVALUATE stakeholder workshops with an article on the most recent workshop in Skopje.

Energy poverty, macedonia

Engaging Polish audiences with EVALUATE research in Gdansk

We continue our reports from recent stakeholder workshops held in the EVALUATE case study countries.

Energy poverty, energy vulnerability, Gdansk, poland

EVALUATE workshop with local stakeholders in Budapest – A summary

We continue our series of EVALUATE workshop reports with an article by Sergio Tirado Herrero describing a recent stakeholder event in Budapest.

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Notes from the EVALUATE workshop with stakeholders from the Czech energy sector

Saska Petrova reports on a recent EVALUATE project event held in Prague.

Czech Republic, energy vulnerability, EVALUATE, Prague

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