NetZeroCities

About

Here you will find more information about climate-neutraility, what it means for you and your city, as well as information about how NetZeroCities works to help get you there!

112 Mission Cities

Discover the cities involved in the EU Cities Mission

Information for: Researchers

Publications from the NetZeroCities website

Onboarding

An introduction to the Portal

Pilot Cities Programme

Innovative approaches over a two-year programme

Twinning Learning Programme

Cities replicating and learning from the work of Pilot Cities

Climate Transition Map

The Climate Transition Map offers you a journey to climate neutrality, supporting you every step of the way with your climate transition

1. Build a Strong Mandate

Aligning people, actions and investments to achieve climate neutrality

3. Codesign a Portfolio

Ways to support change using multiple levers

5. Learn & Reflect

Building the shared knowledge and capabilities necessary to support change at speed

2. Understand the System

Understanding the challenge from different perspectives and learning from the past

4. Act

Planning, implementing and monitoring your actions

Learn

Explore our Knowledge Repository to learn from technical resources, case studies and approaches to climate action that you can use to support your work.

You can also contribute your own resources and publications to strengthen knowledge sharing for all.

Knowledge Repository

Climate Neutrality Resource Search Engine

Focus on: Financing

Financial approaches for climate neutrality

Focus on: Social Innovation

People based solutions

Quick Reads

Key focus areas of NetZeroCities at a glance

Focus on: Impact Pathways & Monitoring

Indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of urban sustainability initiatives

Focus on: Systemic Approaches

Coordinated interventions across existing systems

Focus on: Citizen Engagement

Citizen and urban stakeholder participation

Focus on: Partnership and Policy

Policy and EU climate neutrality projects

Focus on: Technical Solutions

Define and implement advanced and innovative solutions supported by technology

Connect

Join a group to explore your climate transition in focused ways.

Make meaningful connections across our community, share posts on the social feed to keep connected with others making sustainable change in their community!

Cities

See all cities registered on the NetZeroCities Portal

Community Space

Social feed

Groups

Explore groups to join or start your own

Events

Explore events or create your own

User Directory

See all users on the NetZeroCities Portal

Chat

Chat with all users on the NetZEroCities Portal

Act

The NetZeroCities Portal hosts many tools to support your work, now and into the future.

Explore all tools through the overview page or dive straight in.

Tools Overview

Explore all tools at a glance

Barometer

Data dashboard exploring Mission Cities' progress

EU Climate Projects Navigator

EU climate neutrality initiatives and projects

Solution Bundle

Technical solution portfolios for greater impact

Finance Guidance Tool

Find the right funding for your projects

Solution Outliner

Technical decarbonisation solution (factsheet) finder

Profile

Access your account

Log out

Settings

Access your account settings

Help

Connect with support

My Groups

See groups you are a member of

Feedback

Share your experience

GOVERNING A TRANSITION TO CLIMATE-NEUTRALITY

Governance innovations can enhance the capacity of actors to reach climate neutrality. The better we govern collective action, the faster and fairer the required transformation is achieved.

Governance refers to both the “hard” (e.g. regulations, strategies, policies) and “soft” (skills, mindset, forms of collaboration) elements enabling or hindering societal transformation. Climate governance refers to the different ways that cities, other government levels and societal actors use to steer towards climate-neutrality, especially through holistic thinking and collaboration. Instead of one-off, sticking-plaster solutions, climate governance focuses on how the different strategies, actions, technical and social tools, etc., work together as a whole.

For further reading on climate governance, visit “Climate Governance in Cities - Leading Societies Towards Climate Neutrality”.

Key elements of climate governance in cities

Domain-specific governance

‘Hard’ governance of systems, processes, and strategies in specific key domains (e.g. city planning, mobility, energy).

Cultural change

‘Soft’ governance of the culture, mindset, and capacities of the organisation and the people within it.

Capacity for ecosystem leadership

The ways in which cities interact with and incentivise the broader city ecosystem (e.g. private actors, citizens, civil society).

Multilevel governance

Governance of collaboration between cities in different forms and for different purposes as well as city-national and city-EU governance.

Inspirational city stories on governance innovations

Leuven 2030: An NGO founded by the city of Leuven is a membership-based network organisation that aims to break the silos and structural barriers of traditional city collaboration and to enable collaborative climate and innovation governance.

The Bristol Net Zero Investment Co-innovation Lab: Bristol City Council builds on the city’s long-term leadership and work on societal collaboration (see Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership), shared culture and mindset to mobilizing funding needed for the climate transition. Systemic approach for financial mobilisation to meet the city’s goal for a just transition requires thinking beyond finance and putting co-creation in the heart of the city’s efforts (see Community Leadership Panel on Climate Change and Just Transition).

Oslo's Cliamte Budget: Climate budgets calculate the effect of climate neutrality measures and show which administrative entities in the city have the responsibility to implement them. The budgets also spell out how the status of the climate measures is reported in line with the entities’ financial reporting. Launched in 2017, the City of Oslo has been a pioneer in tracking and ensuring its accountability on carbon emissions in its finances.