Gävle

Sweden

Ville à mission Ville pilote
Écosystème national de la mission Sweden
Gävle Mission City Label
Population 85k
Zone de la ville 42.4 km²
Ville active depuis June 2022

Gävle embarked on an ambitious journey with our first environmental strategic programme in 2013 and managed to drastically reduce emissions during the years to come. In 2020 Gävle decided to become climate neutral in 2035 including both territorial and consumption-based emissions in our second Environmental Strategic Programme.

 

To be able to achieve such a bald goal Gävle developed a climate action plan that was endorsed in 2021. With these decisions at hand, we understood that we would need to collaborate with others to be able to reach our goals. We came across the Swedish initiative Viable Cities and decided to apply and was one of the 14 lucky cities to join their second round. Viable Cites made it possible for us to scale up climate action, with external financing, knowledge, methodology and inspiration.

 

Being part of Viable cities motivated us to apply for the EU Cities mission. Hereby we would be able to share experience with cities outside the Swedish context. It is easy to get stuck in the policy context of your own country which doesn't make you see possibilities beyond that. The EU context also involves us getting in touch with new expertise and funding that can help us towards the goal

Enseignements clés

Mobilising Gävle Climate City Contract Transport Portfolio - pilot activity

Transport is Gävle's largest source of emissions, yet governing private, industrial, and commuting-related mobility requires tools and trust that don't yet exist at scale. This pilot launches a dedicated transport portfolio within Gävle's Climate City Contract, bringing together haulers, transport buyers, logistics companies, and public sector actors to collectively tackle freight decarbonisation. Simultaneously, Lund University is building an agent-based simulation model to optimise regional EV charging infrastructure investments — combining grassroots coalition-building with cutting-edge data modelling. Year 1 delivered both technical infrastructure and strategic insight. Lund University built a full MATSim transport simulation model combining local fleet data with Sweden's national freight model to test charging infrastructure scenarios before capital is committed.
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Dernières actualités de la ville

Projets pilotes
Contrat Ville Climat Profil de Vaasa (ville jumelle)

Projets externes

Implication de la ville dans des initiatives européennes connexes