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
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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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!
Learn how each country engages in a Mission
See all cities registered on the NetZeroCities Portal
Social feed
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
L’Aquila is a mountain city in central Italy, shaped as much by its geography as by its recent history. Located in the Apennines at high altitude, it experiences cold winters, hot summers and growing exposure to extreme weather. But climate action in L’Aquila cannot be separated from resilience: the city is still defined by the experience of the 2009 earthquake and the long reconstruction that followed.
Rebuilding has forced L’Aquila to rethink how the city works. As homes, public buildings and infrastructure have been repaired and rebuilt, energy performance, safety and long-term sustainability have become central concerns. Climate action here is less about starting from scratch and more about doing things better the second time around.
The city’s climate priorities focus on reducing emissions from buildings and mobility, expanding renewable energy and strengthening adaptation to environmental risks. Reconstruction has opened space for innovation, allowing climate goals to be embedded directly into urban regeneration, rather than treated as a separate policy layer.
L’Aquila’s approach is pragmatic and forward-looking. By aligning recovery, resilience and climate neutrality, the city is turning a period of profound disruption into a chance to build a safer, more efficient and more sustainable urban future — one that is designed to last.
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