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!
Introduction from main website
Discover the cities involved in the EU Cities Mission
Publications from the NetZeroCities website
An introduction to the Portal
Innovative approaches over a two-year programme
Frequently Asked Questions
Cities replicating and learning from the work of Pilot Cities
The Climate Transition Map offers you a journey to climate neutrality, supporting you every step of the way with your climate transition
Aligning people, actions and investments to achieve climate neutrality
Understanding the challenge from different perspectives and learning from the past
Ways to support change using multiple levers
Planning, implementing and monitoring your actions
Building the shared knowledge and capabilities necessary to support change at speed
Embedding and maintaining good practice
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.
Climate Neutrality Resource Search Engine
Financial approaches for climate neutrality
People based solutions
Key focus areas of NetZeroCities at a glance
Indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of urban sustainability initiatives
Coordinated interventions across existing systems
Citizen and urban stakeholder participation
Policy and EU climate neutrality projects
Define and implement advanced and innovative solutions supported by technology
Design Your City’s Net Zero Strategy: Online Planning Lab
Discover the innovative governance instrument used by Mission Cities
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!
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Explore groups to join or start your own
Explore events or create your own
See all users on the NetZeroCities Portal
Chat with all users on the NetZEroCities Portal
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.
Explore all tools at a glance
Data dashboard exploring Mission Cities' progress
EU climate neutrality initiatives and projects
Technical solution portfolios for greater impact
Explore Social Innovation Actionable Pathways
Find the right funding for your projects
Technical decarbonisation solution (factsheet) finder
Espoo is an innovation city committed to ambitious sustainability goals and inclusive city development. As Finland’s second largest city, Espoo is one of the key actors contributing to regional and national targets of climate neutral Helsinki-Uusimaa region by 2030 and climate neutral Finland by 2035.
Espoo has grown and continues to grow faster than any other city in Finland facing a challenge of keeping the city growth sustainable. Despite the fast population growth, Espoo has already managed to start reducing not only the CO2 emission per capita, but also its total emissions, and has adopted ambitious measures to continue the reductions at an increasing pace.
Espoo’s approach to sustainability and climate action is to look for integrated solutions considering simultaneously the systemic effects on ecological, social, and economic sustainability. The 17 UN Sustainable development goals - including SDG13 climate action - provide us a framework to understand the highly interconnected aspects of sustainability. Espoo was one of the first cities to conduct Agenda 2030 Voluntary Local Review (VLR) in 2020 with more than 1,000 people participating in assessing the city’s sustainability performance. This highlighted the interconnectedness of climate goals to other aspects of sustainability and the need to just transition in the spirit of « leaving no one behind ».
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