Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EUCITYCALC (European City Calculator: Prospective modelling tool supporting public authorities in reaching climate neutrality)
Berichtszeitraum: 2021-09-01 bis 2023-02-28
This is where EUCityCalc comes into play. Its objective is to support public authorities in planning towards climate neutrality through the prospective modelling approach of the European City Calculator webtool. The European City Calculator is an open-source, prospective modelling tool providing cities with a sectoral outlook on the type and ambition of measures they can take to achieve a transition towards climate neutrality. As a flexible model adapted to territorial specificities and reflecting the city governance, it supports cities in designing tailored transition pathways and policy scenarios.
With the webtool at its core, EUCityCalc will support 10 pilot cities - Riga, Dijon Métropole, Mantova, Zdar, Palmela, Sesimbra, Setubal, Koprivnica, Varazdin, Virovitica - in developing and implementing scientifically robust, detailed and integrated pathways and scenarios towards climate neutrality. Through peer-to-peer learning, a multifaceted capacity-building and training programme and the engagement of local stakeholders in expert working groups, EUCityCalc will empower cities in devising a clear and concrete roadmap towards climate neutrality.
Finally, a 1st version of the webtool was presented at the Brussels' project meeting in February 2023. This version contains 3 pages (welcome page, dashboard page and pathways page). Currently, about 24 mitigation measures are available in the webtool in the fields of transport, buildings, energy and consumption/waste. For each of the measure, it is possible to select different magnitude. In total, 70 measure-implementation combinations are available in the webtool to build cities' scenarios towards climate neutrality.
During the reporting period, the process of co-creation of policy scenarios and transition pathways towards climate neutrality in the pilot cities has started. The 10 pilot cities identified their key local stakeholders (207 in total) to join the expert working groups that will perform the sequential co-creation process on the policy scenario and transition pathway to adopt in line with 2050 EU targets. In this time, the mapping of key local stakeholders in the pilot cities has been conducted, the cities’ expert working groups have been set and the implementation of the co-creation process with key local stakeholders through these expert working groups has started.
During the first reporting period, 13 officials from 6 local authorities within the consortium were trained in using the webtool in the demonstration session in Brussels, on February 28th, 2023. The mapping of key local stakeholders was done for the 10 pilot cities. In total, 207 entities or persons were identified in the pilot cities to be part of the expert working groups. The co-creation process in pilot cities started right after the end of the reporting period. The capacity-building activities are planned to start in November-December 2023.