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
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An introduction to the Portal
Innovative approaches over a two-year programme
Frequently Asked Questions
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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
The NetZeroCities Learning Hub offers EU-specific learning programmes in local languages, supporting public administrators, researchers, civic organisations, policymakers, consultants and changemakers.
It provides systemic, peer-to-peer and collaborative approaches, alongside practical tools and evidence-based cases, to support the transition to urban climate neutrality and help navigate complex systemic change.
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The NetZeroCities Portal hosts many tools to support your work, now and into the future.
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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
The Municipality of Kozani (MoK), with its more than 71.000 citizens, is located in the north-west part of Greece and has been the entire Greece’s energy centre since 1955, when the huge lignite deposits were discovered and their exploitation to produce electricity has begun. For the following decades, Kozani has held a leading role in the country’s electricity scenery, producing more than 75% of the country’s total electricity.
This heavy production of electricity brought high development standards for the entire Region, but, as it was based on fossil fuels, this development came at a high cost, as the environmental degradation and the health problems came along, further multiplying as the lignite-based electricity production surged in the beginning of the current century.
However, things started changing in the last decades at global level: the Paris Agreement in 2015, signed by the vast majority of countries around the world, calls for holding the rising temperature level at “well below” two degrees Celsius to avoid an irreversible environmental degradation.
Greece has signed the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, in December 2015, as it has also supported the European Green Deal, approved in 2020. The EU Green Deal legislated that EU’s greenhouse gas emissions should be 55% lower in 2030 compared to 1990, with the main goal of achieving climate neutrality in 2050.
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