December 6, 2024
Gävle hooks arms with Sandviken.
Gävle municipality has an environmental strategy program with the goal of becoming climate neutral by 2035, including consumption-based emissions, and already has a comprehensive climate roadmap. In addition, Gävle will build one of Europe's most sustainable districts, Näringen.
By joining Viable Cities, we want to take our existing sustainability work to the next level by creating system transformation together with the project consortium and other Viable Cities participants. Gävle has for a long time built up an organization and capacity around sustainability issues and has good conditions to deliver the objectives within Viable Cities where we are already well on our way regarding Climate City Contract, climate investment plan and innovation team.
In addition to these objectives, we will work on three measures from our climate roadmap, Public transport as a hub for future sustainable mobility, Sustainability-assured planning and construction process, Create action competence for a climate-neutral municipality.
In the city's latest update, they talk about the work, the transition arena, the project portfolio and much more.
Evelina Loberg, process manager for Climate Neutral Gävle 2030, evelina.loberg@gavle.se
The city is currently working on collecting good examples of how they mobilize and work for the climate transition. They will be here soon!
Climate City Contract 2030 is a collective effort to achieve the climate transition that we need to implement in a short time to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees. It is an agreement between municipalities, government agencies and Viable Cities where all parties undertake to make a concrete contribution to increasing the pace of climate change.
To achieve deep change, we need to move from fragmented projects to an ecosystem of efforts that all pull in the same direction. Cities are doing this together with Viable Cities, funders government agencies and other partners, in different constellations and with different objectives. It is about moving beyond dealing with symptoms and instead focusing on underlying problems in our social structure. Here you will find the initiatives and studies within the city that have been granted funding under Viable Cities.
An important purpose of developing climate investment plans is to look at the total investment needed to achieve the climate targets in order to understand the capital requirements of the transition. This feasibility study will further develop this work by exploring future investments...
The initiative will, based on Gävle, identify drivers and barriers for property owners (mainly small and medium-sized) to strengthen and improve their...
Gävle was awarded the EU Mission Label in October 2024, as one of 20 European cities, for its work to accelerate the transition to a climate-neutral and sustainable city.
Since 2023, Gävle is part of the second cohort of pilot cities from twenty-one EU Member States and Horizon 2020 associated countries selected to launch unprecedented climate action through the NetZeroCities Pilot Cities program.
Gävle is part of the NetZeroCities 112 Mission Cities, selected since 2022 to pioneer the EU Cities Mission.
