Barcelona

Spain

Mission city Pilot city
Spain National Platform
Barcelona Mission City Label
Population 5.7 million
City Area 98 km²
City active since June 2022

Barcelona has a long history in the field of climate change mitigation. Regarding mitigation, its origins date back to the Solar Thermal Ordinance and the Energy Improvement Plan of 2002. The most significant milestones were the Barcelona Energy, Climate Change and Air Quality Plan 2011-2020 and the Barcelona Environmental Ordinance (2011), which included the mitigation of climate change and adaptation to its effects as municipal policy objectives, regulating various topics, including solar generation, among others.

 

In 2015, during the COP21 in Paris, the City Council presented the Barcelona Climate Commitment (BCC), promoted by over a thousand companies, civic entities, schools, and institutions associated with the Barcelona+ Sustainable network, signatories of the Citizen Commitment for Sustainability 2012-2022. This declaration reaffirmed the municipal commitments made (Covenant of Mayors on Energy and Adaptation) and outlined Barcelona's roadmap. Three years later, the Municipal Council Plenary approved the Climate Plan 2018-2030, co-produced by hundreds of city organizations, which reinforced existing climate measures and incorporated many others. The Plan received the Covenant of Mayors award for the best initiative from a major city.

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