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.
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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 City of Velenje's efforts and achievements related to climate change mitigation have been recognised by the 2024 Green Leaf award.
The vision of the city to become climate neutral by 2030 coincides with the exit from coal and just transition of the Savinjsko-Šaleška (SAŠA) sub-region. The modern city of Velenje was planned and built in 1950s. Its development was stimulated by the increasing energy needs. The city has grown into an important economic, employment, educational, administrative and cultural centre of the SAŠA sub-region.
Today, the Velenje coal mine is the only one left operating in Slovenia and supplies lignite to a thermal power plant (TPP) Šoštanj in the neighbouring municipality, which produces around one third of electricity in Slovenia. The Government of the Republic of Slovenia adopted a Strategy for the exit from coal stating that the Velenje coal mine is to close mining operation by 2033 at the latest. Ceasing the use of lignite for production of electricity and for heating is a turning point in history for the City of Velenje, being both a challenge and an opportunity to ambitiously step on a climate neutral path.
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