The now completed REMARKABLE project (2021-2024) has supported local leaders to deliver progress towards carbon neutrality by 2050 in 7 regions across Europe. The Climate Emergency and Energy Transition agendas require clear leadership, ambition, courage and conviction to meet 2050 targets and goals. REMARKABLE successfully created a network of Current and Emerging Climate Leaders who, through their actions and inspiration, will continue to drive their municipalities, public authorities, communities and regions. The legacy of REMARKABLE is the people who will continue to transform their approaches from those focused mainly on energy efficiency/renewables to those focused on the strategic goal of climate neutrality by 2050. Having set new levels of ambition compared to National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) through Climate Neutrality Roadmaps they exemplify local leadership and innovation. REMARKABLE has build new leadership capacity across more than 170 actors from 7 countries in Europe though a Climate Leadership Programme (CLP) designed with and for leaders across public authorities, municipalities, civil society and politics. REMARKABLE has availed of the discipline of ethnography, as a trademark methodology of anthropology, to develop the CLP with, rather than solely for participants. Through our people-centred approach, the REMARKABLE CLP has addressed the key characteristics, drivers and behaviours of pioneering leaders; and, even more importantly, researched and documented the challenges i.e. lack of knowledge, capacity, organisational support etc. which hinder the implementation of current and emerging strategies. REMARKABLE partners have developed 14 Climate Neutrality services to expand their roles as change agents in the Clean Energy Transition and Climate Neutrality challenges. Climate Neutrality Training, Climate One Stop Shops, Storytelling and Communications, Coaching and Activation are some of the services which have been developed through REMARKABLE. Partners will continue to exploit outcomes and results through the the EU Climate Leaders Circle. Groundbreaking and long-term measures towards Climate Neutrality will continue to be shared through this Circle. An innovative Climate Neutrality Challenge was successfully organised for Young Climate Leaders in Austria in 2023, to target new innovations and ideas. The REMARKABLE Climate Leaders Circle has already generated synergies with existing networks and initiatives to support and enhance the REMARKABLE impacts, complementing the technical, financial and policy capacity building agendas with new knowledge on Leadership and Climate Neutrality.
