Learning from others is key to accelerating the climate transition in cities. Here you will find insights and experiences to support the local transition journey.
After nine years as a strategic innovation program, Viable Cities has been evaluated to assess its results and impact. These findings provide a basis for decisions regarding continued funding and contribute to the development of both the program and its format.
Viable Cities Outlook 2026:1 explores the future of local energy systems and presents EnergyNet as a potential foundation for a greener and more secure energy society. The text was prepared by Viable Cities with input from Jonas Birgersson and partners...
Viable Cities Outlook 2025:5, by Viable Cities, Democratic Society, and the City of Helsingborg, explores the role of citizens and civil society in achieving climate-neutral cities. It gathers insights from several citizen engagement initiatives within Viable Cities.
This concept note by Viable Cities, CCFLA and GTI introduces intra-city aggregated procurement as a systemic, innovative approach for cities to shape markets for climate-neutral and resilience-enhancing materials, technologies and infrastructure.
Viable Cities Insight 2025:4 provides an insight into how cities in the Climate City Contract 2030 describe their approach to climate investment and financing the transition.
Viable Cities Insight 2025:3 provides a brief analysis of how the cities in the Climate City Contract 2030 describe how they follow up on the local climate transition work.
Viable Cities Insight 2025:2 provides a brief analysis of how 2030 cities organize climate transition work locally, both within the municipal organization and together with the actors in the transition arena.
Viable Cities Insight 2025:1 provides a brief analysis of climate-smart transport and mobility interventions outlined in the Climate City Contract 2030 signed in December 2024. This is the first insight in a series.
Vinnova's reportClimate City Contract - a governance innovation for the EU Cities Mission" analyzes how the climate contract works as a tool, and tells about Swedish cities' successes, and about obstacles and challenges.
Insights from the first national platforms for climate-neutral cities in Europe, among them Viable Cities, are presented in this NetZeroCities report.
In Spain, the Region of Valencia and the City of Valencia are joining forces in the climate transition, both locally and at EU level. Find out how it works in the report The region as a signatory of the Climate City Contract.
Blekinge Region sees EU missions as an effective method to address various regional societal challenges. In a report from NetZeroCities you can read more about this.
A study that has taken a closer look at how collaboration between municipalities and business in the climate transition is expressed in 2030 cities. Viable Cities Report 2025:2
A study by Viable Cities exploring the role and opportunities of businesses linked to the local Climate City Contract that exist in many of the cities in the Climate Neutral Cities 2030 initiative.
A practical guide for challenge-driven innovation in cities launched by UN-habitat - with many examples from our efforts within the Climate Smart Cities Challenge and the four system demonstrator cities.
Experiences and lessons learned from policy development on land use, mobility, energy planning and other key areas. Viable Cities Report 2025:5
The Nordic countries are considered global pioneers in creating sustainable societies. Although we are doing many things right, there are major tasks ahead if we are to achieve our vision of being the most integrated and sustainable region...
Ghent is a city in Belgian Flanders with about 265,000 inhabitants. Ghent is a growing city with increasing competition for space in the city. The city has long focused on the use of the city's streets and public spaces to make the city...
In 2023, BeBo, in collaboration with Belok, conducted the feasibility study Energy communities for property owners - guidance and support. Within the feasibility study, a guide was developed, which is intended to serve as support for property owners who want to initiate an energy community, but can also serve as a...
Many cities across Europe and elsewhere are exploring new ways of bringing together diverse actors and stakeholders, and enabling collective action across all sectors of society. In this document, NetZeroCities outline one crucial part of doing this, namely setting up...
Storytelling has become a popular tool for sustainability transformations, leading to a rise in self-identified storytellers. As it is fast-spreading and has explicit change purposes, it is important to clarify assumptions about knowledge, power and change. This article analyzes how...
This 2024 edition of the Global Resources Outlook highlights how resources are crucial for the effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda and multilateral environmental agreements to tackle the planetary triple crisis. The report brings together the best available data, modeling, and assessments to analyze trends, impacts...
Viable Cities Report 2023:3 An analysis of stories about Norrland for those who have barely been there, for those who were born there, for those who can imagine moving there and for those who influence without being...
The purpose of the evaluation was to demonstrate results and early effects to inform the authorities' decisions on continued funding, and to support the authorities and the program office to learn and develop the program in the best possible way.
An analysis of consumption trends conducted by Kairos Future on behalf of Science Park Borås, which since 2019 has produced an annual report on the theme of sustainable consumption. Science Park Borås works to develop new knowledge in the areas of textiles,...
In Gothenburg, all the city's construction departments and companies have joined forces to develop common procurement requirements to accelerate the construction sector's transition to zero-emission construction sites.
Experiences from circular economy initiatives in both Gävle and Gothenburg and many other European cities are included in Sweco's Circular City Transformation report.
At business and growth in Linköping, a special position has been created: Business developer, sustainable growth. The work is based, among other things, on the Business Program, where one of the focus areas is Sustainable and resource efficient, with a strong focus on circular economy and transition.
In the City of Gothenburg's strategic business program 2023-2035, climate challenges and circular business models are clearly stated as part of the strategic work.
To assist governments in understanding and harnessing their innovative capacity, OPSI developed the Innovative Capacity Framework. This practical and systemic Framework guides governments in leveraging innovation as an integral part of policymaking and administration and supports them to enhance their...
This guide provides you with tips, advice, guidance and inspiration on how you - by yourself or with others - can influence your municipality to make decisions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and benefit biodiversity where you live.
Viable Cities Report 2023:02 In 2022, Viable Cities was responsible for a government assignment "Support for innovation work in sustainable urban and community development in Norrbotten and Västerbotten". In the assignment, six municipalities (Kiruna, Gällivare, Boden, Luleå, Skellefteå and Umeå) were identified and actors...
Viable Cities Report 2023:01 This report has been commissioned by Vinnova within the framework of the Viable Cities program. The report, firstly, aims to provide a policy-relevant overview of two new elements for sustainable urban development: new forms of governance...
Viable Cities Report 2023:01 The Climate Transition of Cities report explores the emerging model to lead, govern and implement the transition more quickly, known collectively as governance.
This guide supports policy workers in (European) cities who want to design a transformative and participatory process for realizing just and climate-neutral cities. Based on a three-year research project with six European cities (TOMORROW), this guide has been developed to...
A handbook that guides stakeholders to effectively create the policies needed today. The handbook combines an entrepreneurial mindset with concrete processes to produce powerful ideas that create real impact on the environment.
The Viable Cities Report 2021:13 Climate City Contract 2030 is revised annually, evolving and sharpening year by year to accelerate the transition to climate-neutral, sustainable cities. The first version was signed in December 2020 by nine cities, four government agencies and the Viable...
Viable Cities Report 2021:11 The climate transition in the 2020s will see the fossil fuel economy become increasingly unviable and the renewable economy increasingly viable, passing one economic tipping point after another. Climate investment plans involve a...
Viable Cities Report 2021:10 Digitization is an enabler for cities to become climate neutral. But few policy documents and initiatives make this potential clear, and cities are now asking for support in using digitization where it makes the most sense to get...
Viable Cities Report 2021:9 This report presents a proposal for a citizen engagement strategy for the transition to climate-neutral cities. The strategy is intended for municipalities and actors at national level, but also includes other actors. The proposal has been developed by Anthesis...
Viable Cities Report 2021:7 The report is a comparative analysis of nine cities' Climate City Contract 2030 signed on December 11, 2020.
Viable Cities Report 2021:1 Organized in November 2020, the roundtable on "Sharing Cities - Shaping Tomorrow" focused on sharing insights and ideas on the future of sharing in our cities and communities. The roundtable gathered over 40 people from around...
Sustainable Cities Info 2019:2
Viable Cities Report 2020:4 In October 2019, over 200 people from around the world gathered at the Sharing Cities Summit. The focus of the event was centered on the connections between the Sustainable Development Goals and sharing economy in cities....
Viable Cities Report 2020:2 The project is about developing models for recovering waste heat from data centers for urban food production and soil cultivation in dense urban environments. The goal is to build a first facility in Gothenburg with a cultivation greenhouse tightly integrated with the data center as...
The cookbook brings together methods, tools and tips on how to engage participants in change processes. The book is divided into four main parts; Start, Shape, Develop and anchor and Build on.
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