Guimarães

Portugal

Ville à mission Ville pilote
Écosystème national de la mission Portugal
Guimarães Mission City Label
Population 157k
Zone de la ville 241 km²
Ville active depuis June 2022

Guimarães, one of the three EU Mission Cities in Portugal, is a historic city embracing modern green initiatives.

 

It has set an ambitious goal to become climate neutral by 2030 and an even more ambitious long-term vision to become a ’one planet city’ with 100% ’eco citizens’ by 2050. This means that Guimarães strives to become a city with an ecological footprint within the planet’s capacity to sustain it through joint efforts of sustainable and resource-efficient living.

Enseignements clés

Alliance for Climate Leadership - Portuguese cities ECT activity

Portugal’s three Mission Cities—Guimarães, Lisboa, and Porto—face shared challenges in monitoring their progress on the Climate City Contracts (CCCs) implementation: the need for effective, real-time monitoring and the imperative need to act collectively to avoid fragmented efforts. Current tools lack the proceduralization and digital integration necessary to track and adjust climate actions efficiently, while emissions data often lags by two years. The A+CLASS project addresses these barriers by developing a innovative top-down and bottom-up monitoring platform that integrate public and private efforts. By enhancing governance capacity, stakeholder engagement, and data systems, the project enables faster policy adaptation, more efficient resource allocation, and broader societal participation in the race to climate neutrality. Objectives Implement a real-time CCC monitoring system Foster collaboration between mission cities Promote citizen and business engagement Support upscaling across the Cities for Climate network Strengthen data-driven policy and investment planning Cities involved: Guimarães, Porto, Lisbon ECT= Enabling City Transformation

DISTRICT C A Zero-Carbon Commitment - pilot activity in Guimarães

Guimarães tested District C as a neighbourhood-scale laboratory for zero-carbon transition, rooted in culture and civic participation. Centred on a citizens' pact for climate neutrality, the pilot engaged residents, schools, associations, universities, and businesses in co-creating actions on energy, mobility, circular economy, waste, and land use—placing citizens at the heart of systemic change.

Building Capacity for Climate Innovation in Guimarães

Guimarães used City Expert Support Facility (CESF) support to strengthen the municipal capabilities needed to turn climate ambitions into practical, investable projects. Between April and August 2025, staff from the Climate Transition Team and the Landscape Laboratory took part in a tailored programme covering design thinking, financial modelling, sustainable procurement, governance and innovative financing. This project was supported by funding from the EU Cities Mission, provided through the City Expert Support Facility (CESF) of NetZeroCities.

Detailed Summary: Private Sector Engagement in the EU Cities Mission

This is a summary of a case study that provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of private sector engagement in four Mission Cities: Gothenburg (Sweden) Guimarães (Portugal) Budapest (Hungary) Valladolid (Spain)  These cities are early adopters of Climate City Contracts (CCCs), which are designed to catalyze collaborative climate governance involving a broad range of stakeholders, including the private sector.

EU Policy Labs Session #4 – Enabling Energy Communities

This Policy Lab opens a space for exploring different policy scenarios and strategies to tackle city-level challenges in the field of Energy Communities at EU level.   Antwerp, Guimarães and Rome will be the challenge owners, presenting their case studies to the other mission cities, namely :   Antwerp: How can the EU ensure that local authorities can become pioneers in more equitable energy redistribution? Guimarães: How can Guimarães effectively introduce the consumption of renewable energy in buildings located in World Heritage areas? Rome: How can Rome support energy communities that involve NGOs on social projects and tackle energy poverty?

Guimarães, Portugal case studies - Intelligent Cities Challenge

The Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) is a European Commission initiative bringing together 136 cities to achieve intelligent, socially responsible and sustainable growth through advanced technologies. This resources includes case studies from the city of Guimarães, Portugal related to: Cultural and Creative Industries (fashion, clothing and textile) Collaboration with private sector to provide charging stations and decarbonise the company's fleet

3D Participatory Approach to Stakeholder Engagement in Guimarães

Climate transition is not only technological or regulatory but also social, cultural, and participatory. Therefore, Guimarães has implemented a systemic approach to stakeholder engagement to ensure that climate action is not perceived as a top-down process, but rather as a shared effort shaped by those who live and work in the city. The city designed and implemented the 3D Participatory Approach, a stakeholder engagement model built on three dimensions: creating identity, transforming the landscape, and building the future.

Guimarães - One planet city

With the ambition of becoming a one-planet city, Guimarães needed a way to measure how many planets-worth of resources the city and its residents are consuming. This would allow for monitoring progress towards the shared vision. In collaboration with the Global Footprint Network and the University of Aveiro, the city introduced two types of ecological footprint interfaces: A research-based municipal ecological footprint (2018) and an individual ecological footprint calculator (2021).
Voir toutes les vidéos

Dernières actualités de la ville

Projets pilotes
Visiter le site web de Guimarães Contrat Ville Climat Profil de Hamburg (ville jumelle) Profil de Torres Vedras (ville jumelle)

Projets externes

Implication de la ville dans des initiatives européennes connexes