Gävle hooks arms with Sandviken.
Drastically reducing emissions from transport is the single biggest challenge for Gävle, like many others, to reach its climate goals. By 2025, all municipal vehicles must be fossil-free, as well as all procurement of transport.
Gävle is mobilizing for climate-smart transport through, among other things, a municipal mobility plan and, together with the business community, through the Gävle Climate Agreement. But the city points out that transport issues need to be addressed at all levels: between municipalities, nationally and internationally, for the city to achieve its goals, and that the work within Viable Cities is therefore important.
To achieve more effective governance towards climate goals, the city is testing a new way of working and organization. In the Transition Team, each member will be responsible for one area and will have a cross-sectoral group to work in. The areas the team will work on are: mobility, sustainable urban planning, circularity, energy, local Climate City Contract , and carbon storage and capture. A steering group at management level will ensure that the work moves forward.
Another initiative is that the municipality will develop action plans for all target areas in the environmental strategy program in 2025. The plans will make the work clearer and ensure that everyone in the municipality works in a similar way. A strategy forum has been set up to harmonize work between the areas and find synergies.
The municipality involves the city's other actors in the climate transition. In October 2023, the Gävle Climate Agreement was launched in front of more than 100 people. The purpose of the agreement is to initiate and establish a well-functioning transition arena that will contribute to the overall goal of a climate-neutral and competitive Gävle 2030. A total of 87 actors have taken the lead in the work with the common goal as their own.
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
Concrete actions that we want to share with others - to inspire action in other cities.
The Gävle Climate Agreement is a joint effort where local companies, associations, universities and public organizations collaborate in climate-driven business and operational development. An organization that signs the Gävle Climate Agreement undertakes to work for a climate-neutral and attractive Gävle and to work with their organization's climate challenges. In addition, participants are expected to contribute to the dissemination of experiences, knowledge and good examples in order to help other organizations' transition work. Gävle climate agreement - Gävle municipality
Climate-neutral transport. Gävle is taking big steps towards climate neutrality through a project supported by the EU's NetZeroCities. With the aim of reducing the transport sector's significant greenhouse gas emissions, a new focus area for transport and mobility will be created, where public organisations, business, academia and civil society work together. Gävle on the road to climate-neutral transport - Sustainable Innovation
Energy-optimized port cluster 2030 is a ten-year program run in collaboration with various stakeholders. The main goal is for the Port of Gävle cluster to reach the requirements for CO2 reduction and energy efficiency that exist from both national and county level, and which are in line with the Paris Agreement. Energy optimized port cluster - Port of Gävle
The furniture pool is a collaboration between Gavlefastigheter and the Unit for Daily Activities (EDV) within Gävle Municipality. The aim of the pool is to reduce Gävle municipality's purchasing costs and climate impact while creating jobs for people with special needs. Since 2020, 604 tons of CO2 have been saved and 29.2 million SEK. We redecorate Gävle Municipality together
Smart map Gävle - a digital map where activities are made visible that in various ways can help residents make more conscious sustainable choices in their everyday lives. Start - Smart Map | Gävle
District heating between cities. In 2024, a district heating pipeline was built between Gävle and Sandviken. By connecting the two cities' district heating networks, Sandviken's heating is now completely fossil-free. Half of Gävle's district heating comes from industrial residual heat and the other half from biofuel. We now supply Sandviken with 100% renewable district heating - Gävle Energi AB
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.
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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.
