The impact of EU climate and energy initiatives on cities' climate transition

The main objective of this study is to map climate and energy-related initiatives and assess their usefulness for the LRAs, as well as to provide recommendations for the LRAs on how to improve the functioning of the initiatives in order to make them more transparent, user-friendly and helpful for the LRAs. The assessment is made based mainly on interviews with the LRAs participating in various EU funded initiatives and supplementary desk research. The interviews were conducted in the period January-March 2023 with two groups of stakeholders: 1) EU-level organisations; 2) representatives of cities' and regions' administrations (16 in total) which participate in multiple initiatives.