Project description
Building carbon neutrality in cities
As cities keep growing and increasingly represent centres of economic activity, knowledge about their role in the climate transition is crucial. The EU-funded NetZeroCities project will support European cities in significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate neutrality. The initiative supports the European Green Deal aim to realise a low-carbon, climate-resilient future through research and innovation. Bringing together 33 partners from 13 countries, the project will help cities overcome structural, institutional and cultural barriers in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. Specifically, NetZeroCities will develop a service-oriented platform, co-create solutions, and develop new and improve existing tools, resources and expertise.
Objective
NetZeroCities (NZC) is designed to pursue the ambition of the report from the Mission Board for Climate Neutral and Smart Cities, as part of a broader European ambition to achieve climate neutrality before 2050. This ambition represents a substantial elevation of the degrees of decarbonisation and the timescale for achieving it. For all cities achieving this level of impact is an extraordinary undertaking and would require profound changes in how policies, projects and programmes are advanced by cities, with the direction and support of senior governments. NZC connects and builds beyond established programmes and experimental initiatives.
The NetZeroCities consortium is build based on partners? expertise, experience, and access to a very large network of cities of all sizes and maturity throughout Europe. It has an excellent balance of partner typologies, a great geographical coverage allowing presence and activity all throughout Europe, and thanks to that, its approach goes beyond current state-of-the-art.
NetZeroCities will create a programme tailored to the specific conditions of each city. All the services and thematic expertise will be aggregated and co-designed through a NZC one-stop-shop Platform and the digital portal and smart repository for impact measurement, capacity building and knowledge/tools dissemination. Cities will benefit from an intensive support relationship of dedicated City Guides to navigate the platform and ensure city needs are adequately understood and addressed.
NetZeroCities will support pilots in 30 European cities and, in subsequent rounds of engagement, more than 100 cities to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 (medium-term) and 2050 (long term) respectively, by developing and deploying an integral approach to support climate-neutral transformation in cities. This will be achieved through the co-design and organisation of services, including the Climate-neutral City Contract as an enabling instrument.
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1018 DC Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Participants (33)
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
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75011 Paris
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1210 Wien
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D02 EK81 DUBLIN 2
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60486 Frankfurt Am Main
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47151 Boecillo
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69500 Bron
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1019 HC Amsterdam
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E8 3QE London
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00100 Helsinki
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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08018 Barcelona
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25000 Besancon
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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60322 Frankfurt Am Main
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80686 Munchen
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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133 35 SALTSJOBADEN, STOCKHOLM
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1021 KL AMSTERDAM
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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20133 Milano
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3011 GK ROTTERDAM
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10000 Zagreb
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50672 KOLN
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8005 Zurich
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12616 Tallinn
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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2595 DA Den Haag
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1080 Bruxelles / Brussel
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28040 Madrid
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100 44 Stockholm
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02150 Espoo
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