September 16, 2025
In what ways can regional mobilization increase the pace of the climate transition and what role does the municipality play in this? This has been studied in this study with a focus on the Gothenburg region.
15 studies across three themes - civic engagement, climate investment and regional cooperation - have explored how to accelerate the transition.
Civic engagement, climate investments and regional cooperation are key to the climate transition. In 2024, 15 initiatives were carried out across Sweden to explore how to accelerate the transition journey in these areas.
Climate investment plans are a key tool in the local transition journey. In the course of Viable Cities' work so far on developing new ways of investing and redirecting financial flows for climate transition, new issues have emerged. Several of the initiatives have looked more closely at how the work on climate investment plans can be further improved. Linköping, for example, has mapped the climate impact of the municipality's purchases through environmental impact assessments to raise awareness of consumption-based emissions and develop procurement work.
Regional mobilization. Kalmar, for example, explored how climate investment plans and regional mobilization can link up in the transformation of Million Programme districts. The housing stock from the 1960s and 1970s often has extensive renovation needs and social exclusion. Investment decisions will have a large climate impact - positive or negative - depending on the choices made. What are the synergies between climate-smart solutions and the attractiveness of an area?
Citizen engagement. In the municipality of Östersund, for example, they studied how to resolve the conflicts that the climate transition can cause in terms of mobility in rural and urban areas. The solutions often depend on many actors working together. The municipality of Östersund will develop a method for citizen dialogue that includes parameters such as demographics, sparsity, educational background, functional capacity, socio-economic conditions and more, and test it in various initiatives.
The studies received funding through call for proposals #13.
In what ways can regional mobilization increase the pace of the climate transition and what role does the municipality play in this? This has been studied in this study with a focus on the Gothenburg region.
Investments made, and not initiated to reduce CO2 emissions, may account for a large share of future emissions. This study takes a closer look at how climate benefit calculations can contribute to better decision-making.
440 climate heroes in the municipality of Östersund are spreading, sowing seeds and accelerating the transition with the help of the MEDmobility initiative - citizen dialog for sustainable travel. With digital coaching, dialogues and trial activities, citizens have been empowered to travel sustainably and become role models for...
The municipality of Linköping makes purchases worth SEK 4 billion per year. What is the climate impact of these purchases? The city has tested environmental spend analysis as part of the climate investment plan. The municipality can now prioritize purchasing categories and emission reduction efforts, and monitor these over time.
Based on the transition to fossil-free freight transport, Eskilstuna and Helsingborg have explored how municipalities' governance can be improved to benefit the climate transition.
The idea of energy communities is that more than the traditional players should be able to participate in the energy market. What is the role of municipalities in this, can and should they contribute? A number of actors in Eskilstuna have explored this.
How can more actors - city departments, municipally owned companies, and NGOs - be involved and engage more citizens in the transition? Helsingborg has explored how many can join forces to strengthen the local climate transition journey.
The feasibility study highlights climate and health as a combined driver of the city's climate transition. Measuring better health is as important as reducing climate emissions and the feasibility study lays a foundation for this through urban planning and stakeholder involvement.
In the feasibility study "Norrliden - A million program for the climate", Kalmar municipality joins forces with Kalmarhem AB, GodaHus and a number of property owners to identify, prioritize and plan effective climate investments, with the aim of accelerating the climate transition.
This feasibility study will investigate how delimited climate investment plans for a municipal administration and a municipal company can be designed to clarify how the climate transition will accelerate and make costs and social benefits visible. The pre-study will develop business-oriented approaches and inclusive processes to strengthen...
The aim of the study is to introduce methods into the municipality's regular decision-making processes that clarify climate-related benefits in a way that guides investment decisions, and to help private sector actors, who are responsible for the majority of climate-related investments in the city, to eventually start...
Karlstad municipality and companies in the city have come a long way in climate work, not least through the Climate Neutral Cities 2030 initiative. The work on climate investment plans coincides with the development of a new governance model, which creates a window of opportunity to build the plan into governance processes. The feasibility study will...
Upplands-Bro has the largest increase in carbon dioxide emissions among Sweden's municipalities since the Paris Agreement. To achieve the goals, a concerted effort is needed together with the business community. The feasibility study will conduct economic analyses of climate measures and, in collaboration with the business community, highlight economic opportunities for climate investments, such as...
Climate change and finance are currently mainly addressed as isolated issues, and municipal financial processes do not always steer in the same direction as climate goals. Integration of climate and financial management is needed to effectively steer towards net zero. To meet this need, the...
An important purpose of developing climate investment plans is to look at the total investment needs to reach climate targets in order to understand the capital needs of the transition. This feasibility study will further develop this work by exploring investments made in the future...
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